Impact of fibrinogen levels on outcomes after acute injury in patients requiring a massive transfusion

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 290-297

  Inaba, Kenji ^a   Karamanos, Efstathios ^a   Lustenberger, Thomas ^a   Schöchl, Herbert ^b   Shulman, Ira ^a   Nelson, Janice ^a   Rhee, Peter ^a   Talving, Peep ^a   Lam, Lydia ^a   Demetriades, Demetrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AUVA Trauma Hospital   (Austria)

Author keywords

Abbreviated Injury Score; activated prothrombin time; AIS; aPTT; GCS; Glasgow Coma Scale; Injury Severity Score; INR; international normalized ratio; ISS; odds ratio; OR; prothrombin time; PT; SICU; surgical ICU

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CRANIECTOMY; CRANIOTOMY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASSIVE TRANSFUSION; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84872303603     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: 18791190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2012.10.017     Document Type: Article

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