Nurse-Led Preoperative Screening and Targeted Optimization of Pulmonary Dysfunction in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 683-685

  Sivalingam, Sivakumar ^a   Rathinam, Sridhar ^a   Ajis, Adam ^a   Satur, Christopher M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; NURSE; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34447566026     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.11.029     Document Type: Article

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