Postoperative pulmonary complications following thoracic surgery: Are there any modifiable risk factors?

Thorax

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 815-818

  Agostini, P ^a,b   Cieslik, H ^a   Rathinam, S ^a   Bishay, E ^a   Kalkat, M S ^a   Rajesh, P B ^a   Steyn, R S ^a   Singh, S ^b   Naidu, B ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; OPIATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BODY MASS; CHEST INFECTION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; FEVER; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOBECTOMY; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OXYGEN SATURATION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SPUTUM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX SURGERY; COMPLICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ATELECTASIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY ATELECTASIS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 77956867128     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: 14683296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2009.123083     Document Type: Article

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