Factors influencing short- and long-term mortality after lower limb amputation

Anaesthesia

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 249-258

  Scott, S W M ^a   Bowrey, S ^a   Clarke, D ^b   Choke, E ^b   Bown, M J ^b   Thompson, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84894292108     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anae.12532     Document Type: Article

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