The incidence and outcome of perioperative pulmonary aspiration in a university hospital: A 4-year retrospective analysis

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 941-947

  Sakai, Tetsuro ^a   Planinsic, Raymond M ^a   Quinlan, Joseph J ^a   Handley, Linda J ^a   Kim, Tae Yop ^a,b   Hilmi, Ibetsam A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b Konkuk University Hospital   (South Korea)

^c PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FATALITY; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INCIDENCE; LUNG COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATIENT MONITORING; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL PATIENT; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33750044881     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000237296.57941.e7     Document Type: Article

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