- ►mac.com [PDF] GW Smetana, VA Lawrence, JE Cornell - Annals of internal medicine, 2006 - Am Coll Physicians Background: The importance of clinical risk factors for postoperative pulmonary
complications and the value of preoperative testing to stratify risk are the
subject of debate. ... Purpose: To systematically review the literature on ... Cited by 72 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 10 versions
- ►panhandleahec.org [PDF] VA Lawrence, JE Cornell, GW Smetana… - Annals of internal medicine, 2006 - Am Coll Physicians Background: Postoperative pulmonary complications are as fre- quent and
clinically important as cardiac complications in terms of morbidity, mortality,
and length of stay. However, there has been much less research and no ... Cited by 71 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 12 versions
A Qaseem, V Snow, N Fitterman, ER … - Annals of internal medicine, 2006 - Am Coll Physicians Postoperative pulmonary complications play an important role in the risk for
patients undergoing noncardiothoracic surgery. Postoperative pulmonary
complications are as prevalent as cardiac complications and contribute ... Cited by 74 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 21 versions
AM Arozullah, J Daley, WG Henderson, SF … - Annals of surgery, 2000 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov Ahsan M. Arozullah, MD, MPH,* Jennifer Daley, MD,† William G. Henderson,
PhD,‡ and Shukri F. Khuri, MD,§ for the National Veterans Administration
Surgical Quality Improvement Program ... From the *Section of General ... Cited by 135 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
- ►atsjournals.org [PDF] FA McAlister, K Bertsch, J Man, J Bradley, M … - American journal of respiratory and critical care …, 2004 - Am Thoracic Soc Sources of Support: FMcA is a Population Health Investigator of the Alberta
Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, a New Investigator of the Canadian
Institutes of Health Research, and holds the Merck Frosst/Aventis Chair in ... Cited by 51 - Related articles - All 8 versions
GW Smetana, DS Macpherson - Medical Clinics of North America, 2003 - Elsevier Most physicians order a battery of tests before surgery. This practice is
widespread and is often based on policy or procedure at the facility where the
physician practices. A practice of extensive testing of all patients before ... Cited by 54 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
BW Fisher, SR Majumdar, FA McAlister - The American journal of medicine, 2002 - Elsevier Seven studies fulfilled the inclusion criteria. The definition of postoperative
pulmonary complications differed among studies, and the incidence of
postoperative pulmonary complications varied from 2% to 19%. Of the 28 ... Cited by 49 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
RG Johnson, AM Arozullah, L Neumayer, WG … - Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 2007 - Elsevier Postoperative respiratory failure (RF) is associated with an increase in
hospital morbidity, mortality, cost, and late mortality. We developed and tested
a model to predict the risk of postoperative RF in patients undergoing ... Cited by 16 - Related articles - All 11 versions
C Archer, AR Levy, M McGregor - Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d' …, 1993 - Springer The purpose of this study was to estimate the frequency with which routine
postoperative chest x-rays lead to clinically rel- evant new information. All
articles in English, French and Spanish relating to routine chest ... Cited by 65 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
VA Lawrence, SG Hilsenbeck, CD Mulrow, R … - Journal of general internal medicine, 1995 - Springer OBJECTIVE: Internists frequently evaluate preoperative car- diopnlmonary risk
and cornAnage cardiac and pulmonary complications, but the comparative incidence
and clinical importance of these complications are not clearly delineated. ... Cited by 144 - Related articles - All 3 versions
