Anemia management after acute brain injury

Critical Care

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Lelubre, Christophe ^a,b   Bouzat, Pierre ^c,d   Crippa, Ilaria Alice ^a   Taccone, Fabio Silvio ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c HÔPITAL MICHALLON   (France)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Anemia; Red blood cell transfusion; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Threshold; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANEMIA; BRAIN INJURY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OXYGENATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN INJURIES; COMPLICATION; MORTALITY; PERFUSION; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

ANEMIA; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN INJURIES, TRAUMATIC; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; MORTALITY; PERFUSION; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 84975322632     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13054-016-1321-6     Document Type: Review

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