Factors affecting morbidity in emergency general surgery

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 201, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 456-462

  Akinbami, Felix ^a   Askari, Reza ^a   Steinberg, Jill ^a   Panizales, Maria ^a   Rogers Jr , Selwyn O ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency; General surgery; Outcomes; Postoperative complications

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CREATININE; GLUCOSE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COLON RESECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; GENERAL SURGERY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART INFARCTION; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; INTESTINE RESECTION; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SMOKING; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BOSTON; CREATININE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SMOKING; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 79952934516     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2010.11.007     Document Type: Article

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