Use of continuous positive airway pressure after abdominal surgery: Should it be recommended for every patient?

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 249, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 350-352

  Fiore, Julio Flavio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ATELECTASIS; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LETTER; LUNG COMPLICATION; META ANALYSIS; PNEUMONIA; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ABDOMEN; NOTE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE;

ABDOMEN; CONTINUOUS POSITIVE AIRWAY PRESSURE; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES;

EID: 61549091511     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181982fe8     Document Type: Letter

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