Autotransfusion after coronary artery bypass grafting halves the number of patients needing blood transfusion

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1177-1181

  Schmidt, Henrik ^a,b   Mortensen, Poul Erik ^a   Følsgaard, Søren Lars ^a   Jensen, Esther A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS; TIME;

AGED; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION, AUTOLOGOUS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030118708     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0003-4975(96)00002-1     Document Type: Article

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