Does off-pump coronary artery bypass reduce mortality, morbidity, and resource utilization when compared with conventional coronary artery bypass? A meta-analysis of randomized trials

Anesthesiology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 188-203

  Cheng, Davy C ^a,b   Bainbridge, Daniel ^a   Martin, Janet E ^a   Novick, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b London Hlth Sci Ctr Univ Campus ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA BALLOON; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; GRAFT PATENCY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; META ANALYSIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; STROKE; THORACOTOMY; WOUND INFECTION;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS, OFF-PUMP; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 11444268290     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200501000-00028     Document Type: Review

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