A randomised controlled trial to evaluate and optimize the use of antiplatelet agents in the perioperative management in patients undergoing general and abdominal surgery- the APAP trial (ISRCTN45810007)

BMC Surgery

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Antolovic, Dalibor ^a   Reissfelder, Christoph ^a   Rakow, Anastasia ^a   Contin, Pietro ^a   Rahbari, Nuh N ^a   Büchler, Markus W ^a   Weitz, Jürgen ^a   Koch, Moritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON RESECTION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PILOT STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUM; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASPIRIN; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COLECTOMY; FEMALE; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; PILOT PROJECTS; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTUM; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952101018     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2482-11-7     Document Type: Article

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