Packed red blood cell transfusions for critically ill pediatric patients: When and for what conditions?

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 95-97

  Bratton, Susan L ^a,b   Annich, Gail M ^b  

^a F6884 Mott/0243 ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ANEMIA; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD FILTRATION; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CYANOTIC HEART DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTE; MORTALITY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PEDIATRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037326477     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mpd.2003.77     Document Type: Editorial

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