Predicting anesthesia times for diagnostic and interventional radiological procedures

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1491-1500

  Dexter, Franklin ^a   Yue, Jack C ^b   Dow, Angella J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPERATING ROOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 33646203655     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000202397.90361.1b     Document Type: Article

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