Preoperative pulmonary evaluation: Identifying patients at increased risk for complications

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 241-256

  Mohr, David N ^a   Lavender, Robert C ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; AGING; ANESTHESIA; ASTHMA; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LUNG COMPLICATION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; OBESITY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX SURGERY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ALGORITHMS; ANESTHESIA; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 10544242970     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: 19419260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.1996.11.120     Document Type: Article

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