Cardiac surgery in Jehovah's Witness patients: Ten-year experience

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 19-25

  Jassar, Arminder Singh ^a,b,c   Ford, Patricia A ^a,b,c   Haber, Howard L ^a,b,c   Isidro, Alice ^a,b,c   Swain, Jabaris D ^a,b,c   Bavaria, Joseph E ^a,b,c   Bridges, Charles R ^a,b,c  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c LEVINE CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOODLESS CARE; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; JEHOVAH'S WITNESS; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 84055192329     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.06.029     Document Type: Article

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