Postoperative circadian disturbances

Danish Medical Bulletin

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Gögenur, Ismail ^a  

^a GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN; MIDAZOLAM; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ACTIMETRY; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COLON CANCER; CORE TEMPERATURE; FATIGUE; GASTRECTOMY; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR SURGERY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MINOR SURGERY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUESTIONNAIRE; REM SLEEP; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; STOMACH CANCER; URINE LEVEL; WELLBEING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SLEEP DISORDER; THERMOREGULATION;

BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CHRONOBIOLOGY DISORDERS; COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; MELATONIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 78650160019     PISSN: 16039629     EISSN: 16039629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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