Red blood cell transfusion in non-bleeding critically ill patients with moderate anemia: Is there a benefit?

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 445-453

  Leal Noval, Santiago R ^a   Muñoz Gómez, Manuel ^b   Jiménez Sánchez, Mercedes ^a   Cayuela, Aurelio ^a   Leal Romero, María ^a   Puppo Moreno, Antonio ^a   Enamorado, Judy ^a   Arellano Orden, Victoria ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anemia; Coronary; Critically; Moderate; Surgery; Transfusion

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANEMIA; COHORT STUDIES; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84884211370     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-012-2757-z     Document Type: Article

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