A Randomized Trial Evaluating Amiodarone for Prevention of Atrial Fibrillation After Pulmonary Resection

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 886-895

  Tisdale, James E ^a,b   Wroblewski, Heather A ^a   Wall, Donna S ^c   Rieger, Karen M ^b   Hammoud, Zane T ^b   Young, Jerry V ^b   Kesler, Kenneth A ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT;

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BRADYCARDIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LOBECTOMY; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERICARDITIS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QT PROLONGATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK REDUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGED; AMIODARONE; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREMEDICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 68949085753     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.04.074     Document Type: Article

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