Response to: The Importance of Conscious Sedation for Life-Saving Valve Procedures in Patients With Rheumatic Heart Disease From Low- to Middle-Income Countries

Melissa Persad; Jonathan Lazari; Mahmood Ahmad

doi:10.5334/gh.377

Response to: The Importance of Conscious Sedation for Life-Saving Valve Procedures in Patients With Rheumatic Heart Disease From Low- to Middle-Income Countries

Global Heart

Volume 15 (2020): Issue 1

By: Melissa Persad, Jonathan Lazari and Mahmood Ahmad

Open Access

|Feb 2020

Abstract

A response to Alcici et al., 2019 – thinking about how using conscious sedation for percutaneous mitral commissurotomy may improve outcomes in other areas.

References

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gh.377 | Journal eISSN: 2211-8179

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Language: English

Submitted on: Nov 7, 2019

Accepted on: Nov 19, 2019

Published on: Feb 6, 2020

Published by: Ubiquity Press

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

Keywords:

Mitral stenosis,

percutaneous mitral commissurotomy,

conscious sedation,

health economics

© 2020 Melissa Persad, Jonathan Lazari, Mahmood Ahmad, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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