Transfusing neonates based on platelet count vs. platelet mass: A randomized feasibility-pilot study

Platelets

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 513-516

  Zisk, Jody L ^a   Mackley, Amy ^b   Clearly, Gerrard ^c   Chang, Eddie ^c   Christensen, Robert D ^d   Paul, David A ^b,e  

^a Jefferson Einstein Montgomery Hospital   (United States)

^b CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c ABINGTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^e THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Neonatal intensive care unit; Neonatal platelet transfusions; Platelet mass; Platelet transfusion; Thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVENIENCE SAMPLE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HUMAN; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MALE; MORTALITY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEONATAL THROMBOCYTOPENIA; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PILOT STUDY; PLATELET MASS; PRENATAL GROWTH; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE FUNCTION; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; BLOOD; CYTOLOGY; PROCEDURES; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

BLOOD PLATELETS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; PLATELET COUNT; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 84912010929     PISSN: 09537104     EISSN: 13691635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09537104.2013.843072     Document Type: Article

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