Continuous Postoperative Electronic Monitoring and the Will to Require It

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 579-581

  Stoelting, Robert K ^a  

^a Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS ELECTRONIC MONITORING; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MONITORING; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETRY; DRUG MONITORING; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES;

NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; DRUG MONITORING; HUMANS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 84940107947     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000000857     Document Type: Editorial

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