Designated liver transplant anesthesia team reduces blood transfusion, need for mechanical ventilation, and duration of intensive care

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 460-465

  Hevesi, Zoltan G ^a,d   Lapukhin, Sergel Y ^a   Mezrich, Joshua D ^b   Andrel, Adin Cristian ^a   Lee, Minjung ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIOLOGY; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MODEL FOR END STAGE LIVER DISEASE SCORE; PLASMA TRANSFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COOPERATION; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INTENSIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICS; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT CARE TEAM; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67649950655     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21719     Document Type: Editorial

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