The prevalence of perioperative visual loss in the United States: A 10-year study from 1996 to 2005 of spinal, orthopedic, cardiac, and general surgery

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1534-1545

  Shen, Yang ^a   Drum, Melinda ^b,c   Roth, Steven ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CEREBRAL BLINDNESS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COLORECTAL SURGERY; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HIP SURGERY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; ISCHEMIC OPTIC NEUROPATHY; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; LAMINECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; SPINE FUSION; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UNITED STATES; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADOLESCENT; AGE; DATA BASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RETINA DISEASE; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPINAL CORD; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANEMIA; BLINDNESS, CORTICAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; COMORBIDITY; DATABASES AS TOPIC; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; OPTIC NEUROPATHY, ISCHEMIC; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PREVALENCE; RETINAL DISEASES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SPINAL CORD; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VISION DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350716628     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e3181b0500b     Document Type: Article

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