Strategies for perioperative arrhythmias

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 565-577

  Amar, David ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial arrhythmias; Surgery; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ADENOSINE; AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN; FLECAINIDE; HEPARIN; IBUTILIDE; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MAGNESIUM; PROPAFENONE; SOTALOL; WARFARIN; XIMELAGATRAN;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOVERSION; CHEMICAL SYMPATHECTOMY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELDERLY CARE; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART PACING; HEART PROARRHYTHMIA; HEART SUPRAVENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIA; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOMAGNESEMIA; LUNG TOXICITY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOEMBOLISM; UNITED STATES;

ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ARRHYTHMIA; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 4344575098     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpa.2004.05.007     Document Type: Article

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