Bronchoscopy in octogenarians

Age and Ageing

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 710-713

  Rokach, Ariel ^a   Fridlender, Zvi G ^a   Arish, Nissim ^a   Berkman, Neville ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BLEEDING; BRONCHOSPASM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FEVER; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXEMIA; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT SAFETY; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STRIDOR;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANOXIA; BRONCHOSCOPY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; OPTICAL FIBERS; PNEUMOTHORAX; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 56749182793     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afn127     Document Type: Letter

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