Efficacy of a high FFP:PRBC transfusion ratio on the survival of severely injured patients: A retrospective study in a single tertiary emergency center in Japan

Surgery Today

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 653-661

  Kudo, Daisuke ^a,b   Sasaki, Junichi ^c   Akaishi, Satoshi ^a,b   Yamanouchi, Satoshi ^a,b   Koakutsu, Tomoaki ^a   Endo, Tomoyuki ^a,b   Sato, Takeaki ^a   Nomura, Ryosuke ^a,b   Yuzawa, Hironao ^a,b   Kobayashi, Michio ^d   Shinozawa, Yotaro ^e   Kushimoto, Shigeki ^a,b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPANESE RED CROSS SOCIETY   (Japan)

^e International University of Health and Welfare   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fresh frozen plasma; Hemostatic resuscitation; Massive transfusion; Postinjury; Transfusion ratio

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA;

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; INTENSIVE CARE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TERTIARY CARE CENTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMA; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; TIME FACTORS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84896545051     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-013-0518-4     Document Type: Article

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