Fresh whole blood transfusions in coalition military, foreign national, and enemy combatant patients during operation Iraqi freedom at a U.S. combat support hospital

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 2-6

  Spinella, Philip C ^f,g   Perkins, Jeremy G ^b   Grathwohl, Kurt W ^a   Repine, Thomas ^c   Beekley, Alec C ^d   Sebesta, James ^d   Jenkins, Donald ^e   Azarow, Kenneth ^d   Holcomb, John B ^f   Chiles, Jack ^h   Blackbourne, Lorne ^h   Nichols, Dennis ^h   Greco, Jennifer ^h   Clagett, Cynthia ^h   Thibault, Gregory ^h  

^a BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c WILLIAM BEAUMONT ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f US ARMY INSTITUTE OF SURGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^g Farmington   (United States)

^h NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ACIDEMIA; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARMY; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD GROUP A; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN INJURY; COHORT ANALYSIS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FACE INJURY; HEART RATE; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; IRAQ; LABORATORY TEST; LIMB INJURY; MILITARY MEDICINE; NECK INJURY; PELVIS INJURY; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOLDIER; SPINE INJURY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE; THORAX INJURY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; UNITED STATES; VITAL SIGN;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITALS, MILITARY; HUMANS; IRAQ; MILITARY PERSONNEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; UNITED STATES; WAR; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 37449008157     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-007-9201-5     Document Type: Article

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