Advantages of not using the intensive care unit after operations for oropharyngeal cancer: An audit at Worcester Royal Hospital

British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 648-651

  McVeigh, K P ^a   Moore, R ^a   James, G ^a   Hall, T ^a   Barnard, N ^a  

^a WORCESTERSHIRE ROYAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complications; Flap survival; Head and neck cancer; ICU; Resources

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL INSUFFICIENCY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL AUDIT; MOUTH CANCER; MOUTH DISEASE; NECK DISSECTION; OROPHARYNX CANCER; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SEPSIS; SKIN NECROSIS; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM; VENOUS CONGESTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS INFECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HOSPITAL UNITS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NECK DISSECTION; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TRACHEOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 35948944477     PISSN: 02664356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjoms.2007.05.003     Document Type: Article

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