Frequent respiratory events in postoperative patients aged 60 years and above
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Frequent respiratory events in postoperative patients aged 60 years and above
There is limited information on the occurrence of respiratory events in postoperative patients after discharge from the postanesthesia care unit. We studied the respiratory rate (RR) of 68 patients aged 60 years and above during the first 6 hours following elective surgery under general anesthesia to assess the frequency of respiratory events in the care unit and on the ward. RR was derived fro...
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عنوان ژورنال: Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1178-203X
DOI: 10.2147/tcrm.s135923