Stairs climbing test with pulse oximetry as predictor of early postoperative complications in functionally impaired patients with lung cancer and elective lung surgery: Prospective trial of consecutive series of patients

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 50-57

  Nikolić, Igor ^a,d   Majerić Kogler, Višnja ^b   Plavec, Davor ^c   Maloča, Ivana ^c   Slobodnjak, Zoran ^a  

^a University Hospital for Lung Diseases Jordanovac   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^c SREBRNJAK CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Croatia)

^d KBC Zagreb   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLIMBING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LOBECTOMY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGENATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PULSE OXIMETRY; PULSE RATE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXIMETRY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RISK FACTORS; SPIROMETRY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; THORACIC SURGERY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 40449086899     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3325/cmj.2008.1.50     Document Type: Article

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