The use of a blood conservation pressure transducer system in critically ill patients

Anaesthesia

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 27-31

  Thorpe, S ^a   Thomas, A N ^a  

^a HOPE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arterial catheterisation; Bacterial colonisation; Blood; Critical illness; Transfusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BLOOD STORAGE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CATHETER INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HEMOFILTRATION; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; SEPSIS;

ADULT; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION, AUTOLOGOUS; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; CRITICAL CARE; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; HEMOFILTRATION; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 0033957765     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.2000.01129.x     Document Type: Article

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