Toward an accurate assessment of the adverse effects of packed red blood cell transfusions in cardiac surgery [15]

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3067-3068

  Habib, Robert H ^a   Schwann, Thomas A ^a   Zacharias, Anoar ^a   Riordan, Christopher J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

BLEEDING; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEMATOCRIT; HEMODILUTION; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33751321871     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000248869.87834.44     Document Type: Letter

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