Should red blood cell transfusion be individualized? No

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1977-1979

  Holst, Lars B ^a   Carson, Jeffrey L ^b   Perner, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; HEMOGLOBIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

BRAIN INJURY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EDITORIAL; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FOLLOW UP; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALIZATION; INTENSIVE CARE; MORTALITY; BLOOD; BRAIN INJURIES; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIOMARKERS; BRAIN INJURIES; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PRECISION MEDICINE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84942503474     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-015-3948-1     Document Type: Editorial

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