Daily chest roentgenograms are unnecessary in nonhypoxic patients who have undergone pulmonary resection by thoracotomy

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 440-443

  Cerfolio, Robert James ^a   Bryant, Ayesha S ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSPASM; DIURETIC THERAPY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PATIENT CARE; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

AGED; ANOXIA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECOVERY ROOM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFTWARE DESIGN; THORACOTOMY; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 79960931318     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.04.002     Document Type: Article

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