Conscious off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery

Indian Heart Journal

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 49-53

  Chakravarthy, Murali ^a   Jawali, Vivek ^a   Manohar, Murali ^a   Patil, T A ^a   Jayaprakash, K ^a   Shivananda, N V ^a   Joseph, Gilbert ^a   Kolar, Srinivasan ^a   Das, Jayant Kumar ^a  

^a Wockhardt Hospital & Heart Institute   (India)

Author keywords

Coronary artery bypass grafting; Epidural anesthesia; Off pump surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; STERNOTOMY; THORACOTOMY;

ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS, OFF-PUMP; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 17644403076     PISSN: 00194832     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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