No additional benefit with use of a fibrin sealant to decrease peri-operative blood loss during primary total knee arthroplasty

Journal of Arthroplasty

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2109-2112

  Maheshwari, Aditya V ^a   Korshunov, Yevgeiny ^a   Naziri, Qais ^a   Pivec, Robert ^a   Mont, Michael A ^b   Rasquinha, Vijay J ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fibrin sealant; Hemostasis; Total knee

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN GLUE; HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; HEMATOCRIT; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FIBRIN TISSUE ADHESIVE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBINS; HEMOSTATICS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84908279590     PISSN: 08835403     EISSN: 15328406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arth.2014.02.034     Document Type: Article

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