Should critically ill patients be routinely transfused to a normal haemoglobin level?

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 92, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1038-1039

  Markhorst, D G ^a   Kneyber, M C J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ANEMIA; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COCHRANE LIBRARY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; MALE; MEDLINE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NOTE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEPTIC SHOCK; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ACIDOSIS, LACTIC; ANEMIA; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SHOCK, SEPTIC;

EID: 35748945404     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2007.124412     Document Type: Note

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