Risk factors for pulmonary complications after emergency abdominal surgery

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 808-813

  Serejo, Livia Goreth Galvão ^a   da Silva Júnior, Francisco Pereira ^a   Bastos, João Paulo Catunda ^a   de Bruin, Gabriela Sales ^a   Mota, Rosa Maria Salani ^a   de Bruin, Pedro Felipe Carvalhedo ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Abdomen; Emergencies; Postoperative complications; Pulmonary medicine; Risk

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCISION; INTERVIEW; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ATELECTASIS; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 33847326888     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2006.07.015     Document Type: Article

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