Blood transfusions are associated with increased risk for development of sepsis in severely burned pediatric patients

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 579-583

  Jeschke, Marc G ^a   Chinkes, David L ^a   Finnerty, Celeste C ^a   Przkora, Rene ^a   Pereira, Clifford T ^a   Herndon, David N ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Burn; Cytokines; Inflammation; Pediatric; Sepsis; Trauma

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY SURFACE; BURN; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; GENDER; GROUPS BY AGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INFECTION RISK; INHALATION; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PATIENT CODING; PEDIATRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPSIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BURNS; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS;

EID: 33846446719     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000253812.09236.98     Document Type: Article

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