Fast-tracking: Eliminating roadblocks to successful early discharge

Thoracic Surgery Clinics

Volumn 15, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 221-228

  Lin, Jules ^a   Iannettoni, Mark D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; INFUSION FLUID; KETOROLAC; MACROGOL;

AIR LEAK; CLINICAL PATHWAY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL CATHETER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEVER; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTERCOSTAL NERVE BLOCK; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LENGTH OF STAY; LOBECTOMY; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG INFECTION; NAUSEA; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PRURITUS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SUCTION; THORACOTOMY; URINE RETENTION; VOMITING;

EID: 18144364368     PISSN: 15474127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.thorsurg.2005.01.007     Document Type: Review

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