Differential associations between body mass index and outcomes after elective adult cardiac surgery: A linked data cohort study

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 573-583

  Ho, K M ^a,b,c   Bertenshaw, C ^a,d   Same, S ^a   Schneider, M ^a   Williams, K A ^a   Godsell, T ^a   Hird, K ^a,d  

^a Mount Hospital   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (Australia)

Author keywords

Complications; Haemorrhage; Obesity; Surgery; Thrombosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY MASS; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; INTRAAORTIC BALLOON PUMP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOPLASM; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 84885404457     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: 14480271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0310057x1304100502     Document Type: Article

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