The impact of pre-operative focused transthoracic echocardiography in emergency non-cardiac surgery patients with known or risk of cardiac disease

Anaesthesia

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 714-720

  Canty, D J ^a,b,c,d   Royse, C F ^a,c   Kilpatrick, D ^b   Williams, D L ^c   Royse, A G ^a,c  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b ROYAL HOBART HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; CARDIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PILOT PROJECTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 84862799631     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2012.07118.x     Document Type: Article

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