Patient selection in ambulatory surgery

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 598-602

  Lermitte, Jeremy ^a   Chung, Frances ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ambulatory anesthesia; Ambulatory surgery; Outpatient; Patient selection

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY SURGERY; ANESTHESIA; ASTHMA; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; DIABETES MELLITUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NAUSEA; OBESITY; PAIN; PATIENT SELECTION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SMOKING; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 28044432955     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.aco.0000188416.46061.37     Document Type: Review

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