Three-year survival after four major post-cardiac operative complications.

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Published in Crit Care Med on November 01, 2006

Authors

Ortrud Vargas Hein1, Jürgen Birnbaum, Klaus D Wernecke, Wolfgang Konertz, Uday Jain, Claudia Spies

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Campus Charite Mitte, Charite-University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany. ortrud.vargas@charite.de

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