Impact of vitamin C supplementation on post-cardiac surgery ICU and hospital length of stay

Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Sadeghpour, Anita ^a   Alizadehasl, Azin ^a   Kyavar, Majid ^a   Sadeghi, Tahereh ^a   Moludi, Jalal ^b   Gholizadeh, Farhad ^b   Totonchi, Ziae ^a   Ghadrdoost, Behshid ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Atrial fibrillation; Hospital stay; Intensive care unit; Vitamin C

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926188603     PISSN: 22287523     EISSN: 22287531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5812/aapm.25337     Document Type: Article

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