Perioperative atrial fibrillation in five patients - Role of anxiety

Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 135-137

  Garg, Rakesh ^a   Punj, Jyotsna ^a   Gupta, Preeti ^b   Darlong, V ^a   Pandey, Ravindra ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b SAFDARJUNG HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DIAZEPAM; DIGOXIN; DILTIAZEM; FENTANYL; LIDOCAINE; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EVENING DOSAGE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LETTER; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MORNING DOSAGE; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; URETER SURGERY;

EID: 79951922117     PISSN: 09709185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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