Accounting for differences in transfusion volume: Are all massive transfusions created equal?

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1536-1540

  Sharpe, John P ^a   Weinberg, Jordan A ^a   Magnotti, Louis J ^a   MacLennan, Paul A ^b   Schroeppel, Thomas J ^a   Fabian, Timothy C ^a   Croce, Martin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Massive transfusion; Mortality; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD COMPONENT THERAPY; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE REGISTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASSSIVE TRANSFUSION; MORTALITY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESUSCITATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHOCK; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; RESUSCITATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRAUMA CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84864549067     PISSN: 21630755     EISSN: 21630763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e318251e253     Document Type: Article

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