Pick up the pieces: Depth of anesthesia and long-term mortality

Anesthesiology

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 485-487

  Kalkman, Cor J ^a   Peelen, Linda M ^a   Moons, Karel G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA LEVEL; AWARENESS; BISPECTRAL INDEX; COMORBIDITY; EDITORIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LONG TERM CARE; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PEROPERATIVE CARE; POSTANESTHESIA CARE; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE;

EID: 79952036867     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e31820c2ba2     Document Type: Editorial

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