Postoperative mortality and complications

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 319-327

  Story, David A ^a,b,c  

^a AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c Australia New Zealand College of Anaesthetists   (Australia)

Author keywords

complications; mortality; surgery

Indexed keywords

SERUM ALBUMIN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CARE AND CARING; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FRAIL ELDERLY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; KIDNEY INJURY; PATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

EID: 80053009743     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: 1532169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpa.2011.05.003     Document Type: Review

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