Critical pathways can improve results with carotid endarterectomy

Seminars in Vascular Surgery

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 253-256

  Calligaro, Keith D ^a   Doerr, Kevin J ^a   McAfee Bennett, Sandy ^a   Mueller, Kathy ^a   Dougherty, Matthew J ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; CONTRAST MEDIUM; VASOACTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART DISEASE; HEMATOMA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARACERVICAL BLOCK; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOVERY ROOM; STENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PATIENT SELECTION; PHILADELPHIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 4644289629     PISSN: 08957967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semvascsurg.2004.06.008     Document Type: Article

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