Revisits and readmissions following ambulatory uvulopalatopharyngoplasty

Laryngoscope

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 754-757

  Bhattacharyya, Neil ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dehydration; Postoperative hemorrhage; Readmission; Safety; Sleep apnea; Surgical complications; Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AMBULATORY SURGERY; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEHYDRATION; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NAUSEA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; TONSILLECTOMY; UVULOPALATOPHARYNGOPLASTY; VOMITING; ADVERSE EFFECTS; EAR NOSE THROAT SURGERY; INCIDENCE; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; TRENDS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PATIENT READMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84923319256     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.24706     Document Type: Article

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