The Benefits of Continuous and Digital Air Leak Assessment After Elective Pulmonary Resection: A Prospective Study

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 396-401

  Cerfolio, Robert J ^a   Bryant, Ayesha S ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR ANALYSIS; AIR LEAK; AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTINUOUS AIR LEAK ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIGITAL AIR LEAK ASSESSMENT; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HOME; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG PRESSURE; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBE; TUBE REMOVAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHEST TUBES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 47149096964     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.04.016     Document Type: Article

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