Jehovah's witnesses requiring complex urgent cardiothoracic surgery

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 695-697

  Holt, Richard L ^a   Martin, Tomas D ^a   Hess, Philip J ^a   Beaver, Thomas M ^a   Klodell, Charles T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

25

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ERYTHROPOIETIN; IRON;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVALESCENCE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ERYTHROPOIESIS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEMODILUTION; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; JEHOVAH'S WITNESS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOM; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AORTIC ANEURYSM; APROTININ; BLOOD TRANSFUSION, AUTOLOGOUS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CARDIAC TAMPONADE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; ERYTHROPOIETIN; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HEMATOCRIT; HEMODILUTION; HUMANS; IRON; JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TREATMENT REFUSAL; VIRIDANS STREPTOCOCCI;

EID: 3242758406     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)01494-2     Document Type: Article

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