The impact of blood conservation on outcomes in cardiac surgery: Is it safe and effective?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 451-458

  Moskowitz, David M ^a   McCullough, Jock N ^a   Shander, Aryeh ^a   Klein, James J ^a   Bodian, Carol A ^b   Goldweit, Richard S ^a   Ergin, M Arisan ^a  

^a ENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CONSERVATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HEART SURGERY; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MCNEMAR TEST; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTICEMIA; UNITED STATES; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; ANEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77955680691     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.04.089     Document Type: Article

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