Association between postoperative haemoglobin and myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery: a retrospective cohort analysis

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2021, Pages 94-101

  Turan, Alparslan ^a   Cohen, Barak ^a,b   Rivas, Eva ^a,c   Liu, Liu ^a   Pu, Xuan ^a   Maheshwari, Kamal ^a   Farag, Ehab ^a   Onal, Ozkan ^a   Wang, Jiayi ^a   Ruetzler, Kurt ^a   Devereaux, Philip J ^d,e   Sessler, Daniel I ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES   (Canada)

^e MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

anaesthesia; cardiovascular risk; noncardiac surgery; perioperative anaemia; postoperative outcomes

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; TROPONIN T;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL PATIENT; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

COHORT STUDIES; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 85091603663     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: 14716771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2020.08.056     Document Type: Article

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