Should red cell transfusion be individualized? Yes

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1973-1976

  Sakr, Yasser ^a   Vincent, Jean Louis ^b  

^a Uniklinikum Jena ^*  (Germany)

^b ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ANEMIA; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EDITORIAL; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT INDICATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; APACHE; COMORBIDITY; COMPLICATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; INTENSIVE CARE; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; ANEMIA; APACHE; COMORBIDITY; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PRECISION MEDICINE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84942499909     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-015-3950-7     Document Type: Editorial

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