Transfusion of shed mediastinal blood reduces the use of allogenic blood transfusion without increasing complications

Perfusion

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 145-150

  Folkersen, Lars ^a   Tang, Mariann ^a   Grunnet, Niels ^a   Jakobsen, Carl Johan ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

autotransfusion; blood transfusion; cardiac surgery

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA;

ADULT; AGED; ALLOGENIC BLOOD TRANSFUSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD VOLUME; CHEST INFECTION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REOPERATION; SHED MEDIASTINUM BLOOD REINFUSION; STERNUM INFECTION; STROKE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

AGED; BLOOD COMPONENT TRANSFUSION; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION, AUTOLOGOUS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 79953090652     PISSN: 02676591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0267659110393299     Document Type: Article

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