Incidence, timing, symptoms, and risk factors for atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery

American Journal of Critical Care

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 424-435

  Funk, Marjorie ^a   Richards, Sally B ^a   Desjardins, Jill ^b   Bebon, Christy ^c   Wilcox, Heather ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^b UConn Health John Dempsy Hospital   (United States)

^c YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; UNITED STATES; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CONNECTICUT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 1542439969     PISSN: 10623264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4037/ajcc2003.12.5.424     Document Type: Article

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