A national clinical scenario-based survey of clinicians' attitudes towards fresh frozen plasma transfusion for critically ill patients

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 124-129

  Watson, D M ^a   Stanworth, S J ^b   Wyncoll, D ^c   McAuley, D F ^d   Perkins, G D ^e   Young, D ^f   Biggin, K J ^a   Walsh, T S ^g  

^a SCOTTISH NATIONAL BLOOD TRANSFUSION SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^f OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^g ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fresh frozen plasma; Intensive care unit; Scenario; Transfusion

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CANNULATION; CATHETERIZATION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PLASMA TRANSFUSION; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SEPSIS; THORAX DRAINAGE; TRACHEOSTOMY;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BLOOD COAGULATION DISORDERS; BLOOD COMPONENT TRANSFUSION; BLOOD SAFETY; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CHEST TUBES; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DATA COLLECTION; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; PHYSICIANS; PLASMA; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PUNCTURES; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 79951616220     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: 13653148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3148.2010.01049.x     Document Type: Article

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