Restrictive guideline reduces platelet count thresholds for transfusions in very low birth weight preterm infants

Vox Sanguinis

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 207-213

  Borges, J P G ^a   Dos Santos, A M N ^a   Da Cunha, D H F ^a   Mimica, A F M A ^a   Guinsburg, R ^a   Kopelman, B I ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Guideline; Infant; Neonatal intensive care unit; Platelet transfusion; Thrombocytopenia; Very low birth weight

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLEEDING; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SEPSIS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

GUIDELINE; INFANT; NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

BLOOD PLATELETS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; PLATELET COUNT; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84875618994     PISSN: 00429007     EISSN: 14230410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1423-0410.2012.01658.x     Document Type: Article

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