Highs and lows in high-risk surgery: The controversy of goal-directed haemodynamic management

Critical Care

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 642-644

  Takala, Jukka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE MIX; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; HEMODYNAMICS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; UNITED KINGDOM; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR SURGERY; MORBIDITY; OXYGEN SATURATION; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PULMONARY ARTERY CATHETER; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CRITICAL CARE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

LITHIUM; OXYGEN;

EID: 31744451442     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc3929     Document Type: Note

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