What Factors Should We Consider in Deciding When to Transfuse Patients Undergoing Elective Cardiac Surgery?

Transfusion Medicine Reviews

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 42-54

  Slight, Robert D ^a,b   Alston, R Peter ^a,b   McClelland, David B L ^a,b   Mankad, Pankaj S ^a,b  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH NATIONAL BLOOD TRANSFUSION SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CRYOANESTHESIA; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART OUTPUT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN DELIVERY DEVICE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PLASMA VOLUME; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; TISSUE OXYGENATION; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

BLOOD VISCOSITY; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

EID: 56849106791     PISSN: 08877963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmrv.2008.09.004     Document Type: Article

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