Effect of plasma-to-RBC ratios in trauma patients: A cohort study with time-dependent data

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1905-1914

  Halmin, Märit ^a,b   Boström, Fredrik ^a   Brattström, Olof ^a,c   Lundahl, Joachim ^a   Wikman, Agneta ^a   Östlund, Anders ^c   Edgren, Gustaf ^a,d  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b DANDERYD HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Coagulopathy; Massive hemorrhage; Plasma ratio; Survival bias; Transfusion; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SEVERITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME DEPENDENT DATA; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD COMPONENT TRANSFUSION; BLOOD PRESSURE; COHORT STUDIES; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMA; PLASMA VOLUME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SWEDEN; SYSTOLE; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880942154     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31828a3214     Document Type: Article

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