Emergency intensive care admission following elective thoracic surgery

Minerva Chirurgica

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 113-117

  Khan, O A ^a   Chau, R ^a   Moorjani, N ^a   Tsang, G M ^a   Barlow, C W ^a   Amer, K M ^a  

^a SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intensive care unit; Surgery; Thorax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HEMOFILTRATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; THORAX SURGERY; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33745513614     PISSN: 00264733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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