A study of blood products use in patients with major trauma in Scotland: Analysis of a major trauma database

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 325-329

  McRoberts, Randal J ^a   Beard, D ^a   Walsh, T S ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; RECOMBINANT BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7A;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLUNT TRAUMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRECIPITATE; DATA BASE; DRUG EFFICACY; EMERGENCY WARD; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FALLING; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED KINGDOM; COHORT ANALYSIS; FACTUAL DATABASE; INJURY; MIDDLE AGED; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOTLAND; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 34247895447     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2006.044198     Document Type: Article

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