Quality improvement of microsurgery through telecommunication-the postoperative care after microvascular transfer of intestine

Microsurgery

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 96-102

  Chen, Hung Chi ^a   Kuo, Hsin Chih ^b   Chung, Kuo Piao ^c   Chen, Shih Heng ^d   Tang, Yueh Bih ^d   Su, Syi ^c  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATHETER INFECTION; CERVICAL ESOPHAGUS; ESOPHAGUS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTESTINE; INTESTINE NECROSIS; ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSURGERY; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; OPERATING ROOM; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; TELECOMMUNICATION; THORACIC ESOPHAGUS; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; INTESTINES; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84862831565     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20965     Document Type: Article

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