Optimal Surgical Performance Attenuates Physiologic Risk in High-Acuity Operations

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 207, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 717-730

  Pratt, Wande ^a   Callery, Mark P ^a   Vollmer Jr , Charles M ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIANGINA PECTORIS AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; DIGOXIN; DIURETIC AGENT; HEMOGLOBIN; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; WARFARIN;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BILE LEAKAGE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD VOLUME; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONVALESCENCE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HIGH ACUITY OPERATION; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; HYPERALIMENTATION; HYPERTENSION; ILEUS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS FISTULA; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PARAMETER; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; STOMACH EMPTYING; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UREA BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATIC DISEASES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 54049120169     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2008.06.319     Document Type: Article

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