Clinical review: Can we predict which patients are at risk of complications following surgery?

Critical Care

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Shah, Nirav ^a   Hamilton, Mark ^a  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN; DIURETIC AGENT;

ACCURACY; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; APACHE; BRADYCARDIA; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; CARDIOVERSION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DELIRIUM; DIARRHEA; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FLATUS TUBE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERVOLEMIA; ILEUS; INTESTINE PSEUDOOBSTRUCTION; METABOLIC EQUIVALENT; OXYGEN THERAPY; PANCREATITIS; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SURGICAL RISK; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX DRAINAGE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; URETER OBSTRUCTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84877645422     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc11904     Document Type: Review

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