title: Assessment of time and cost of anesthesia with versus without recurrent laryngeal nerve monitoring in patients undergoing total thyroidectomy.
authors.affiliation: Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center, Greenville, South Carolina, USA. cbailey@ghs.org
authors.forename: Christopher W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Bailey
authors.forename: Lauren D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Crosby
authors.forename: Brent
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: Jonathan S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Lokey
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000768:Anesthesia, General / Q000191:economics* / Q000379:methods; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003363:Cost Control; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016343:Monitoring, Intraoperative / Q000191:economics* / Q000295:instrumentation; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D012009:Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve / Q000502:physiology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013965:Thyroidectomy / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014826:Vocal Cord Paralysis / Q000517:prevention & control