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Opening of a new postanesthesia care unit: impact on critical care utilization and complications following major vascular and thoracic surgery

Published inJournal of clinical anesthesia, vol. 14, no. 7, p. 486-493
Publication date2002
Abstract

To assess the impact of a new postanesthesia care unit (PACU) on intensive care unit (ICU) utilization, hospital length of stay, and complications following major noncardiac surgery.

Keywords
  • Aged
  • Anesthesia Recovery Period
  • Critical Care
  • Humans
  • Intensive Care Units
  • Odds Ratio
  • Postanesthesia Nursing
  • Postoperative Complications/prevention & control
  • Recovery Room/statistics & numerical data
  • Risk Factors
  • Thoracic Surgical Procedures/adverse effects/mortality
  • Vascular Surgical Procedures/adverse effects/mortality
Citation (ISO format)
SCHWEIZER, Alexandre et al. Opening of a new postanesthesia care unit: impact on critical care utilization and complications following major vascular and thoracic surgery. In: Journal of clinical anesthesia, 2002, vol. 14, n° 7, p. 486–493. doi: 10.1016/S0952-8180(02)00403-8
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