Role of amicar in surgery for neuromuscular scoliosis

Spine

Volumn 33, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 2626-2629

  Thompson, George H ^a,c   Florentino Pineda, Ivan ^b   Poe Kochert, Connie ^a   Armstrong, Douglas G ^a   Son Hing, Jochen ^a  

^a Division of Pediatric Orthopaedics   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amicar (epsilon aminocaproic acid); Cerebral palsy; Estimated intraoperative blood loss; Neuromuscular scoliosis; Posteriorspinal fusion; Postoperative suction drainage; Segmental spinal instrumentation; Total perioperative blood loss

Indexed keywords

AMINOCAPROIC ACID; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NEUROMUSCULAR SCOLIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACRUM; SCHOOL CHILD; SCOLIOSIS; SPINE FUSION; SUCTION DRAINAGE; WOUND CLOSURE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; INSTRUMENTATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

6-AMINOCAPROIC ACID; ADOLESCENT; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL FUSION; SUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58949087235     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e318187c046     Document Type: Article

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