A review of blood product usage in a large emergency department over a one-year period

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 439-442

  Beckwith, Hannah ^a   Manson, Lynn ^b   McFarlane, Carol ^b   Reed, Matthew J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ANEMIA; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; AUTOMUTILATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CRYOPRECIPITATE; EMERGENCY WARD; EPISTAXIS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE TRANSFUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLASMA TRANSFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEPSIS; STAB WOUND; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOTLAND; STATE MEDICINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953835909     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2008.068650     Document Type: Review

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