Red cell transfusion: Risk marker or risk factor in cardiac children?

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 330-331

  Lacroix, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

cardiac; critical care; erythrocyte; pediatric; transfusion

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEART DISEASE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; LEUKOCYTE REDUCTION PROCEDURES; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 84874888387     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: 19473893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0b013e31827d165b     Document Type: Editorial

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