The effect of spinal anesthesia on blood transfusion rate in total joint arthroplasty

Canadian Journal of Surgery

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 391-396

  Rashiq, Saifudin ^a   Finegan, Barry A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY MASS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY WEIGHT; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 33845664945     PISSN: 0008428X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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