Patient blood management in orthopaedic surgery: A four-year follow-up of transfusion requirements and blood loss from 2008 to 2011 at the Balgrist University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland

Blood Transfusion

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 195-203

  Theusinger, Oliver M ^a   Kind, Stephanie L ^a   Seifert, Burkhardt ^b   Borgeat, Alain ^c   Gerber, Christian ^c   Spahn, Donat R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia audit; Blood transfusion; Orthopaedic surgery; Pre anaesthetic assessment

Indexed keywords

ACIDUMFOLICUMSTREULI; CYANOCOBALAMIN; FERRIC CARBOXYMALTOSE; FOLIC ACID; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOSTATIC AGENT; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN; THROMBOCYTE CONCENTRATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD VOLUME; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HIP SURGERY; HUMAN; KNEE SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT BLOOD MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PLASMA TRANSFUSION; PREOPERATIVE ANEMIA; PREOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE SURGERY; SWITZERLAND; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; TOPICAL TREATMENT; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; AGED; BLOOD; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84899530736     PISSN: 17232007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2450/2014.0306-13     Document Type: Article

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