Transfusion-free pediatric burn surgery: Techniques and strategies

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 165-171

  Losee, Joseph E ^a,b   Fox, Ida ^a   Hua, Lan B ^a   Cladis, Franklyn P ^a   Serletti, Joseph M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Burn surgery; Children; Pediatrics; Transfusions

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; THROMBIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ANESTHESIA; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD VOLUME; BODY SURFACE; BURN; CAUTERIZATION; CHILD; CHILD DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEMATOCRIT; HEMODILUTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MORTALITY; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SKIN ABRASION; SKIN GRAFT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; THERMAL INJURY; TOURNIQUET;

ADOLESCENT; BANDAGES; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BURNS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEBRIDEMENT; DERMABRASION; ELECTROCOAGULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 12744255038     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000143798.55846.8d     Document Type: Review

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