Mild hypothermia increases blood loss and transfusion requirements during total hip arthroplasty

Lancet

Volumn 347, Issue 8997, 1996, Pages 289-292

  Schmied, Harald ^a   Kurz, Andrea ^b   Sessler, Daniel I ^b   Kozek, Sybille ^c   Reiter, Albert ^a  

^a Hospital of Amstetten   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COLLOID; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; CRYSTALLOID; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE FUNCTION; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS;

EID: 0030031773     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)90466-3     Document Type: Article

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