Extreme anemia in an injured Jehovah's witness: A test of our understanding of the physiology of severe anemia and the threshold for blood transfusion

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Vaziri, Khashayar ^a,b   Roland, Jason C ^a,b   Robinson, Linda L ^a   Reines, H David ^c   Fakhry, Samir M ^a  

^a INOVA FAIRFAX HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c INOVA FAIRFAX HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; IRON; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN; VITAMIN K GROUP; HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CRYOPRECIPITATE; CRYSTALLOID; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMORAL ARTERY; FEMORAL VEIN; FLUID RESUSCITATION; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; JEHOVAH'S WITNESS; LIGATION; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; TRACHEOSTOMY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VASCULAR SUTURE; VEIN LIGATION; ETHICS; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOSTASIS; INJURY SCALE; LEG INJURY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; OPEN FRACTURE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TRAUMATIC AMPUTATION; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AMPUTATION, TRAUMATIC; ANEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURES, OPEN; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBINS; HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HEMOSTATICS; HUMANS; JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES; LEG INJURIES; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TREATMENT REFUSAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350447422     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e318047bfc8     Document Type: Article

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