What to do if there is no evidence? the issue of surgical procedures in patients with thrombocytopenia

Transfusion

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2262-2264

  Schiffer, Charles A ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTERY PUNCTURE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLEEDING; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BRONCHOSCOPY; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FLUOROSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; HOSPITAL POLICY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRATHECAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; JUGULAR VEIN; KIDNEY BIOPSY; LEUKEMIA; LIVER BIOPSY; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG LAVAGE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 80055003417     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2011.03409.x     Document Type: Review

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