Cost-effectiveness of routine intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography in pediatric cardiac surgery: A 10-year experience

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1271-1275

  Bettex, Dominique A ^a   Prêtre, René ^a   Jenni, Rolf ^a   Schmid, Edith R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; HEART SURGERY; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REOPERATION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE;

EID: 17744369934     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000149594.81543.F0     Document Type: Article

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