An update on mortality and morbidity in patients with very low postoperative hemoglobin levels who decline blood transfusion (CME)

Transfusion

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 2688-2695

  Shander, Aryeh ^a   Javidroozi, Mazyar ^a   Naqvi, Sajjad ^a   Aregbeyen, Oshuare ^a   Çaylan, Mustafa ^a   Demir, Selma ^a   Juhl, Anna ^a  

^a ENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; JEHOVAH'S WITNESS; LOW RISK PATIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SEPSIS; WOUND INFECTION; ADOLESCENT; AGED; BLOOD; BLOODLESS CARE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT REFUSAL; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOODLESS MEDICAL AND SURGICAL PROCEDURES; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT REFUSAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908472667     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/trf.12565     Document Type: Article

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