Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Utilizing Local Anesthesia and Sedation: 384 Consecutive Cases

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 240-245

  Katlic, Mark R ^a   Facktor, Matthew A ^a  

^a GEISINGER HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHYLOTHORAX; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; LUNG BIOPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM MASS; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATIENT SAFETY; PLEURA BIOPSY; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEDATION; THORAX DRAINAGE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953564669     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.02.113     Document Type: Article

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