The use of a blood conservation device to reduce red blood cell transfusion requirements: A before and after study

Critical Care

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Mukhopadhyay, Amartya ^a   Yip, Hwee S ^a   Prabhuswamy, Dimple ^a   Chan, Yiong H ^b   Phua, Jason ^a   Lim, Tow K ^a   Leong, Patricia ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CONSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INDWELLING CATHETER; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; VENOUS ARTERIAL BLOOD MANAGEMENT PROTECTION; APACHE; BLOOD SAMPLING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

APACHE; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77649290522     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc8859     Document Type: Article

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