Preoperative electrocardiograms: Obsolete or dtill useful?

Anesthesiology

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1205-1206

  De Hert, Stefan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

AGE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONSENSUS; ECG ABNORMALITY; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR SURGERY; NONCARDIAC SURGERY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; NOTE; PREOPERATIVE CARE;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 67049115456     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e31819fb179     Document Type: Editorial

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