Preoperative laboratory testing in patients undergoing elective, low-risk ambulatory surgery

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 256, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 518-528

  Benarroch Gampel, Jaime ^a   Sheffield, Kristin M ^a   Duncan, Casey B ^a   Brown, Kimberly M ^a   Han, Yimei ^a   Townsend, Courtney M ^a   Riall, Taylor S ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

ambulatory surgery; low risk surgery; overuse; preoperative evaluation; preoperative laboratory testing

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN; NITROGEN; SODIUM; STEROID;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; AMBULATORY SURGERY; ASCITES; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLEEDING; BLEEDING DISORDER; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; COMORBIDITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ELECTROLYTE BLOOD LEVEL; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART INFARCTION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HERNIA; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; KIDNEY FAILURE; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SEPTIC SHOCK; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; STEROID THERAPY; STROKE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT INDICATION; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREOPERATIVE CARE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RISK; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865450320     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318265bcdb     Document Type: Conference Paper

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