Are high-dose perioperative steroids necessary in patients undergoing colorectal surgery treated with steroid therapy within the past 12 months?

American Surgeon

Volumn 77, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1295-1299

  Zaghiyan, Karen ^a   Melmed, Gil ^a   Murrell, Zuri ^a   Fleshner, Phillip ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; PREDNISONE; STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HERNIA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; ILEUS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT DURATION; URINE RETENTION; VITAL SIGN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CALIFORNIA; COLECTOMY; COLONIC DISEASES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RECTAL DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80755189364     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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