Intraoperative transfusion of small amounts of blood heralds worse postoperative outcome in patients having noncardiac thoracic operations

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1674-1680

  Ferraris, Victor A ^a,b   Davenport, Daniel L ^a   Saha, Sibu P ^a   Bernard, Alethea ^b   Austin, Peter C ^c   Zwischenberger, Joseph B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b LEXINGTON VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIA; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEPSIS; SHOCK; THORAX SURGERY; WOUND COMPLICATION; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; HEMATOCRIT; HIGH RISK PATIENT; NOTE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RISK FACTOR; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79957681278     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.01.025     Document Type: Article

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