Mortality and length of stay in a surgical intensive care unit;Mortalidade e o tempo de internação em uma unidade de terapia intensiva cirúrgica

Revista Brasileira de Anestesiologia

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 34-45

  Abelha, Fernando José ^a,c   Castro, Maria Ana ^a   Landeiro, Nuno Miguel ^a   Neves, Aida Maria ^a   Santos, Cristina Costa ^b  

^a Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care   (Portugal)

^b University of Porto   (Portugal)

^c HOSPITAL DE SÃO JOÃO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Complications: morbidity, mortality, postoperative; Intensive care: mortality, stay length; Postoperative period: emergency surgery, major surgery

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIA LEVEL; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; COLLOID; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR SURGERY; MALE; MORTALITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WARMING;

EID: 33645334184     PISSN: 00347094     EISSN: 1806907X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0034-70942006000100005     Document Type: Article

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