Complications associated with anemia and blood transfusion in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2070-2075

  Kramer, Andreas H ^a   Gurka, Matthew J ^b   Nathan, Bart ^b   Dumont, Aaron S ^c   Kassell, Neal F ^c   Bleck, Thomas P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anemia; Critical care; Delayed infarction; Intensive care; Nosocomial infection; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Transfusion; Vasospasm

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANEMIA; ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; BLOOD STORAGE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN INFARCTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROSCIENCE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VASOSPASM; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CLASSIFICATION; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 47249160739     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31817c1095     Document Type: Article

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