Plasma transfusion strategies for critically ill patients

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2013, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Karam, Oliver ^a   Tucci, Marisa ^b   Combescure, Christophe ^a   Lacroix, Jacques ^b   Rimensberger, Peter C ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; ALL CAUSE MORTALITY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTERVENTION STUDY; MORBIDITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PLASMA TRANSFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOELASTOGRAPHY;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS;

EID: 84897368253     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD010654     Document Type: Article

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