Emergency transfusion for acute severe anemia: A calculated risk

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1088-1092

  Weiskopf, Richard B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ANEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY CARE; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MALE; OXYGEN TENSION; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANEMIA; AXILLARY ARTERY; BLOOD GROUPING AND CROSSMATCHING; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FLUID THERAPY; HEMODILUTION; HEMOGLOBINS; HETASTARCH; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; PLASMA SUBSTITUTES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHOCK, HEMORRHAGIC; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; WOUNDS, STAB;

EID: 78149435961     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181f5ba2b     Document Type: Editorial

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