Anesthetic depth is not (yet) a predictor of mortality!

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-3

  Cohen, Neal H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT;

AMBULATORY SURGERY; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANESTHESIA DURATION; ANESTHESIA LEVEL; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BISPECTRAL INDEX; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CUMULATIVE DEEP HYPNOTIC TIME; DIABETES CONTROL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; EDITORIAL; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HYPOTENSION; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR SURGERY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OPERATING ROOM; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PEROPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEDATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; VALIDATION PROCESS; WOUND HEALING;

ANESTHESIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 10944237762     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000147507.23991.47     Document Type: Editorial

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