Anaemia and its treatment in neurologically critically ill patients: Being reasonable is easy without prospective trials

Critical Care

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Naidech, Andrew M ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ANEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN TISSUE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; NOTE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CRITICAL ILLNESS;

ANEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 79952109367     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc8981     Document Type: Note

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