Age of red blood cells and mortality in the critically ill

Critical Care

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Pettilä, Ville ^a   Westbrook, Andrew J ^a   Nichol, Alistair D ^a,b   Bailey, Michael J ^a   Wood, Erica M ^a,c   Syres, Gillian ^a   Phillips, Louise E ^a   Street, Alison ^b   French, Craig ^d   Murray, Lynnette ^a   Orford, Neil ^e   Santamaria, John D ^f   Bellomo, Rinaldo ^a   Cooper, David J ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS BLOOD SERVICE   (Australia)

^d School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine Monash University ^*  (Australia)

^e GEELONG HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; APACHE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CELL AGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DEATH; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART SURGERY; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEW ZEALAND; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PLASMA TRANSFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ERYTHROCYTE LIFESPAN; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AUSTRALIA; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ERYTHROCYTE AGING; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79955115053     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc10142     Document Type: Article

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