Transfusion strategies in postinjury coagulopathy

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 289-298

  Stahel, Philip F ^a   Moore, Ernest E ^a   Schreier, Star L ^a   Flierl, Michael A ^a   Kashuk, Jeffry L ^a  

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

Author keywords

Coagulopathy; Hemorrhage; Thromboelastography; Transfusion; Trauma

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; HEMOGLOBIN; RECOMBINANT BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7A;

BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; BLOOD COMPONENT THERAPY; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; CRYOPRECIPITATE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE CONTROL; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHERMIA; HYPOVOLEMIA; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SAFETY; PLASMA TRANSFUSION; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOELASTOGRAPHY; TRANSFUSION RELATED ACUTE LUNG INJURY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

BLOOD COAGULATION DISORDERS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; ERYTHROCYTES; FIBRINOGEN; HUMANS; PLASMA; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; THROMBELASTOGRAPHY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 67449085235     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e32832678ed     Document Type: Review

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