Two septic transfusion reactions presenting as transfusion-related acute lung injury from a split plateletpheresis unit

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2488-2491

  Rollins, Mark D ^a   Molofsky, Ari B ^a   Nambiar, Ashok ^a   Pandey, Suchitra ^a   Weiskopf, Richard B ^a   Toy, Pearl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

bacterial contamination; platelets; sepsis; transfusion; transfusion related acute lung injury

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXEMIA; HYPOXIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG EDEMA; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NONHUMAN; POSTERIOR SPINE FUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SCOLIOSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL BACTEREMIA; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPHERESIS; TRANSFUSION RELATED ACUTE LUNG INJURY;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; AGED; CROSS INFECTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; PLATELETPHERESIS; SEPSIS; SPINE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 84864218398     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3182544f85     Document Type: Article

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