Improved survival after hemostatic resuscitation: Does the emperor have no clothes?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 97-102

  Magnotti, Louis J ^a   Zarzaur, Ben L ^a   Fischer, Peter E ^a   Williams, Regan F ^a   Myers, Adrianne L ^a   Bradburn, Eric H ^a   Fabian, Timothy C ^a   Croce, Martin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

FFP to PRBC ratio; Hemostatic resuscitation; Survival bias

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SHOCK; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADULT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; EXSANGUINATION; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTASIS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; PLASMA; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 78751635896     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3182051691     Document Type: Article

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