Successful management of massive blood loss to extremely low hemoglobin in an elderly woman receiving spinal surgery

Acta Anaesthesiologica Sinica

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 89-92

  Ng, Kwok On ^a   Chow, Lok Hi ^a,b   Wang, Chih Chien ^c   Yang, Yung Cheng ^d   Liu, Kang ^a   Lee, Tak Yu ^a,b  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c God's Help Hospital   (Taiwan)

^d SHOW CHWAN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Elderly; Fluids therapy; Perioperative complications: severe anemia, acute blood loss; Surgery: spine

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN;

AGED; ANEMIA; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEMORRHAGIC HYPOTENSION; HUMAN; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SPINE SURGERY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; SPINE;

EID: 0033949491     PISSN: 02541319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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