Outcome of patients who refuse transfusion after cardiac surgery: A natural experiment with severe blood conservation

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 1154-1160

  Pattakos, Gregory ^a   Koch, Colleen G ^a   Brizzio, Mariano E ^a   Batizy, Lillian H ^a   Sabik III, Joseph F ^a   Blackstone, Eugene H ^a   Lauer, Michael S ^b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA CLAMPING; AORTA SURGERY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY MASS; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CRYOPRECIPITATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAZARD RATIO; HEART ARREST; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY FAILURE; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; REOPERATION; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; TREATMENT REFUSAL; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; ANEMIA; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ERYTHROPOIETIN; FEMALE; HEMATINICS; HUMANS; JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PERIOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865700026     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.2449     Document Type: Article

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