Do cardiac children need more red blood cell transfusions than other critically ill children?

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2050-2052

  Du Pont Thibodeau, Geneviève ^a   Lacroix, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CHILD; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EDITORIAL; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEART SURGERY; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84885420301     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-013-3082-x     Document Type: Editorial

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