Platelet transfusions for critically ill patients with thrombocytopenia

Blood

Volumn 123, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1146-1151

  Lieberman, Lani ^a,b   Bercovitz, Rachel S ^c   Sholapur, Naushin S ^d   Heddle, Nancy M ^d,e   Stanworth, Simon J ^f,g   Arnold, Donald M ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^c BLOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e CANADIAN BLOOD SERVICES   (Canada)

^f JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; FIBRINOGEN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ANEMIA; APNEA; ARTICLE; BACILLI; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; ECHOGRAPHY; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEWBORN; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 84897832315     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2013-02-435693     Document Type: Article

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