Transfusions and long-term functional outcomes in traumatic brain injury: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 539-546

  Warner, Matthew A ^a   O'Keeffe, Terence ^c   Bhavsar, Premal ^a   Shringer, Rashmi ^a   Moore, Carol ^a   Harper, Caryn ^a   Madden, Christopher J ^b   Sarode, Ravi ^a   Gentilello, Larry M ^b   Diaz Arrastia, Ramon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Neurological Surgery ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anemia; Functional outcome; Long term outcome; Mortality; Transfusion; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; SODIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANEMIA; BLOOD; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN INJURIES; COMPLICATION; CONVALESCENCE; FOLLOW UP; PROCEDURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANEMIA; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN INJURIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LINEAR MODELS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SODIUM; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77956944556     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2009.12.JNS091337     Document Type: Article

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