EuroSCORE: Useful in directing preoperative intra-aortic balloon pump placement in cardiac surgery?

Heart Surgery Forum

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 334-337

  Healy, David G ^a   Veerasingam, Devendran ^a   Wood, Alfred E ^a  

^a MATER MISERICORDIAE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA BALLOON; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATIENT SELECTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGED; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INTRA-AORTIC BALLOON PUMPING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 33846070034     PISSN: 10983511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1532/HSF98.20061037     Document Type: Article

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