Blood transfusion in cardiac surgery is a risk factor for increased hospital length of stay in adult patients

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Galas, Filomena R B G ^a   Almeida, Juliano P ^a   Fukushima, Julia T ^a   Osawa, Eduardo A ^a   Nakamura, Rosana E ^a   Silva, Carolina M P D C ^a   de Almeida, Elisângela Pinto Marinho ^a   Auler, Jose Otavio Costa ^a   Vincent, Jean Louis ^b   Hajjar, Ludhmila A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cardiac surgery; Length of stay; Transfusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875352029     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498090     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8090-8-54     Document Type: Article

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