Things aren't always as they seem: What the randomized trials of red blood cell transfusion tell us about adverse outcomes (CME)

Transfusion

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3243-3246

  Yazer, Mark H ^a   Triulzi, Darrell J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ADVERSE OUTCOME; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; KIDNEY INJURY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MORTALITY; NOTE; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SEPTIC SHOCK; SURGICAL PATIENT; WOUND INFECTION; FEMALE; MALE;

ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84916620569     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/trf.12706     Document Type: Note

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