The role of heart rate variability in risk stratification for adverse postoperative cardiac events

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1548-1560

  Laitio, Timo ^a   Jalonen, Jouko ^a   Kuusela, Tom ^b   Scheinin, Harry ^b  

^a TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SUDDEN DEATH;

EID: 36549014200     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000287654.49358.3a     Document Type: Review

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