Ambulatory anaesthesia: There is room for further improvements of safety and quality of care - Is the way forward further simple but evidence-based risk scores?

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 679-681

  Jakobsson, Jan ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT; KETOROLAC; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; NONOPIOID ANALGESIC; OPIATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMBULATORY ANAESTHESIA; AMBULATORY SURGERY; ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIA; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DRUG SAFETY; EDITORIAL; EPINEPHRINE INFILTRATION ANALGESIA; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HOSPITALIZATION; IMMOBILIZATION; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK REDUCTION; SELF CARE; SURGICAL INFECTION; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION; TOPICAL ANESTHESIA; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WOUND COMPLICATION;

AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ANESTHESIA; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 78649480522     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e32833ff3bc     Document Type: Editorial

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