Is there a limit to massive blood transfusion after severe trauma?

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 133, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 947-952

  Velmahos, George C ^a,b   Chan, Linda ^a   Chan, Michael ^a   Tatevossian, Raymond ^a   Cornwell III, Edward E ^a   Asensio, Juan A ^a   Berne, Thomas V ^a   Demetriades, Demetrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAC USC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INOTROPIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AORTA CLAMPING; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0031691176     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.133.9.947     Document Type: Article

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