Two-center prospective randomized controlled trial of Blake versus Portex drains after cardiac surgery

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 132, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1042-1046

  Roberts, Neil ^a   Boehm, Maria ^b   Bates, Madeline ^a   Braidley, Peter C ^a   Cooper, Graham J ^a   Spyt, Tom J ^b  

^a NORTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b GLENFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX DRAINAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; DRAINAGE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33750075023     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2006.06.031     Document Type: Article

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