Can the attending anesthesiologist accurately predict the duration of anesthesia induction?

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 938-940

  Ehrenwerth, Jan ^a   Escobar, Alejandro ^a   Davis, Elizabeth A ^a   Watrous, Gail A ^a   Fisch, Gene S ^a   Kain, Zeev N ^a   Barash, Paul G ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HEALTH STATUS; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIOLOGY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATION; OPERATING ROOMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33750051979     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000232445.44641.5f     Document Type: Article

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