Perioperative assessment of diastolic dysfunction

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 449-472

  Matyal, Robina ^a   Skubas, Nikolaos J ^b   Shernan, Stanton K ^c   Mahmood, Feroze ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMRINONE; ANESTHETIC AGENT; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; DESFLURANE; ENFLURANE; ETOMIDATE; HALOTHANE; ISOFLURANE; KETAMINE; PROPOFOL;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ANESTHESIA; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIAC PATIENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DEHYDRATION; DIASTOLE; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HEART AFTERLOAD; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CYCLE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE RELAXATION; HEART PRELOAD; HEART RATE; HEART SURGERY; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HEMODYNAMICS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; NONHUMAN; OPERATING ROOM; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULSE WAVE; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SURGICAL PATIENT; SYSTOLE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 80052268370     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e31822649ac     Document Type: Review

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