More on transfusion and adverse outcome: It's time to change

Anesthesiology

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 234-236

  Spahn, Donat R ^a   Shander, Aryeh ^b   Hofmann, Axel ^c,d   Berman, Mitchell F ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Medical Society For Blood Management   (Austria)

^d CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANEMIA; BLEEDING; COHORT ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEART INFARCTION; HEMATOCRIT; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; KIDNEY INJURY; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG INJURY; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; STROKE; TRANSFUSION;

EID: 79251634988     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e3182054d3e     Document Type: Editorial

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