Fast track postoperative management after elective colorectal surgery: A controlled trail

American Surgeon

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1247-1251

  Feo, Carlo V ^a   Lanzara, Serena ^a   Sortini, Davide ^a   Ragazzi, Riccardo ^a   De Pinto, Mario ^b   Pansini, Gian Carlo ^a   Liboni, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIRIUM; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FAINTNESS; FEMALE; FEVER; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE FUNCTION; LUNG EDEMA; MALE; MOBILIZATION; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARESTHESIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; VOMITING; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COLECTOMY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY AMBULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

EID: 73449095787     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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