Platelet Transfusions in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Clinics in Perinatology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 613-623

  Sparger, Katherine ^a   Deschmann, Emoke ^b   Sola Visner, Martha ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Neonatal intensive care unit; Platelet transfusions; Thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

ALLOANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY;

CELL SIZE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MATERNAL DIABETES MELLITUS; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NEONATAL HEMORRHAGE; NEONATAL THROMBOCYTOPENIA; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PERINATAL INFECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE FUNCTION; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; VALIDATION STUDY; NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NEWBORN; PROCEDURES; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 84938557448     PISSN: 00955108     EISSN: 15579840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clp.2015.04.009     Document Type: Review

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