Efficacy of allogeneic red blood cell transfusions

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 209-219

  Vincent, Jean Louis ^a   Sakr, Yasser ^b   De Backer, Daniel ^a   Van der Linden, Philippe ^c  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c BRUGMANN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

leucoreduction; microcirculation; oxygen delivery; oxygen uptake; storage lesion

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; HEMOGLOBIN; OXYGEN;

ANEMIA; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; ERYTHROCYTE PRESERVATION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEART OUTPUT; HEMATOCRIT; HEMODILUTION; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKAPHERESIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MICROCIRCULATION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE OXYGENATION;

BLOOD PRESERVATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LEUKOCYTES; MICROCIRCULATION; MORBIDITY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 34250019044     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpa.2007.01.005     Document Type: Review

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