Bloodless liver transplantation in a Jehovah's Witness

International Anesthesiology Clinics

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 108-115

  Stoye, Allen ^a   Chapin, James W ^a   Botha, Jean ^a   Grant, Wendy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOCAPROIC ACID; ERYTHROPOIETIN; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; PHENYLEPHRINE; RECOMBINANT BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7A; STEROID; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOODLESS CARE; CASE REPORT; COUNSELING; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; JEHOVAH'S WITNESS; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PEROPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEOLOGY; THROMBOCYTE; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHOLANGITIS, SCLEROSING; HUMANS; JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RELIGION AND MEDICINE;

EID: 79954496091     PISSN: 00205907     EISSN: 15371913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AIA.0b013e3181fa1482     Document Type: Article

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