The Role of Perioperative Hyperglycemia in Postoperative Infections

Advances in Surgery

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 103-109

  Rogers Jr , Selwyn O ^a   Zinner, Michael J ^b  

^a Division of Trauma   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART DISEASE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INCIDENCE; METABOLISM; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SURGICAL INFECTION;

BLOOD GLUCOSE; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INCIDENCE; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 70350043347     PISSN: 00653411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yasu.2009.02.009     Document Type: Review

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