Blood transfusion: Less is more?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2409-2410

  Carson, Jeffrey L ^a   Armas Loughran, Barbara ^a  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood preservation; Blood transfusion; Cardiovascular diseases; Clinical trial; Critically ill patients; Hemoglobin

Indexed keywords

2,3 DIPHOSPHOGLYCERIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANEMIA; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD STORAGE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CELL AGING; CELL FUNCTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EDITORIAL; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HIP FRACTURE; HOSPITAL BILLING; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICARE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGIOUS GROUP; STOMACH PH; STROKE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRUS INFECTION;

BLOOD BANKS; BLOOD COMPONENT TRANSFUSION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL TRIALS; CRITICAL CARE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 0042832116     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000087006.41468.60     Document Type: Editorial

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