Efforts to change transfusion practice and reduce transfusion rates are effective in coronary artery bypass surgery

Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 545-549

  Andreasen, Jan Jesper ^a   Sindby, Jesper Eske ^a   Brocki, Barbara Cristina ^a   Rasmussen, Bodil Steen ^b   Dethlefsen, Claus ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

blood transfusion; coronary artery bypass graft surgery; red blood cells

Indexed keywords

ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HEMOGLOBIN;

AGED; ALLOGENEIC BLOOD TRANSFUSION; ARTERY CLAMP; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STERNUM; SURGICAL INFECTION; TUBE;

AGED; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84863449746     PISSN: 10530770     EISSN: 15328422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2012.02.006     Document Type: Article

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