A safe and cost-effective short hospital stay protocol to identify patients at low risk for the development of significant hypocalcemia after total thyroidectomy

Laryngoscope

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 906-910

  Nahas, Zayna S ^a   Farrag, Tarik Y ^a   Lin, Frank R ^a   Belin, Ruth M ^a   Tufano, Ralph P ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium slope; Hypocalcemia; Total thyroidectomy

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CALCIUM INTAKE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NODULAR GOITER; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

ALGORITHMS; CALCIUM; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 33745285761     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000217536.83395.37     Document Type: Review

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