The use of aprotinin in pediatric cardiac surgery: Should we bid 'good riddance' or are we throwing out the baby with the bath water?

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 809-811

  Twite, Mark D ^a   Hammer, Gregory B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOCAPROIC ACID; APROTININ; CREATININE; PLACEBO; PROPOFOL; SUXAMETHONIUM; TRANEXAMIC ACID;

ANAPHYLAXIS; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLEEDING; BLOOD CONSERVATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY SURGERY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIALYSIS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; EDITORIAL; ERYTHROCYTE; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART SURGERY; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMMATURITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; THROMBOSIS;

APROTININ; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HEMOSTATICS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 48249130453     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2008.02717.x     Document Type: Editorial

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