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Postoperative Care

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Postoperative care has evolved over the years into a scientific method of maintaining desirable physiologic states or changing abnormal states. Several excellent handbooks of postoperative care are available.2,11,23 This chapter discusses our routine postoperative monitoring and therapy and reviews common problems occurring in the postoperative period, with an outline of our therapies.

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  1. Division of Cardiopulmonary Surgery, University of Oregon Health Sciences Center, Portland, Oregon, 97201, USA

    Bradley J. Harlan M.D. (Associate Professor of Surgery) & Albert Starr M.D. (Professor of Surgery and Chief)

  2. Medical Illustrator, 9101 S. W. 15th Avenue, Portland, Oregon, 97219, USA

    Fredric M. Harwin B.F.A., M.S.

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Harlan, B.J., Starr, A., Harwin, F.M. (1980). Postoperative Care. In: Manual of Cardiac Surgery. Comprehensive Manuals of Surgical Specialties. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0076-2_7

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