Thoracotomy in adults while on ECMO is associated with uncontrollable bleeding

Perfusion

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 23-26

  Marasco, Silvana F ^a,b   Preovolos, Arthur ^a   Lim, Kiat ^b   Salamonsen, Robert F ^a  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APROTININ; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR; RECOMBINANT BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADULT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; EMPYEMA; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEMALE; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LOBECTOMY; LUNG ABSCESS; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SEPSIS; THORACOTOMY; WOUND CLOSURE;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANTS; EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; FATAL OUTCOME; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 34347403026     PISSN: 02676591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0267659106074789     Document Type: Review

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