Efficacy of intraoperative cell salvage in decreasingperioperative blood transfusion rates in first-time cardiac surgery patients: A retrospective study

Canadian Journal of Surgery

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 330-336

  Côté, Claudia L ^a   Yip, Alexandra M ^b   MacLeod, Jeffrey B ^b   O'Reilly, Bill ^b   Murray, Joshua ^c   Ouzounian, Maral ^d   Brown, Craig D ^e   Forgie, Rand ^b   Pelletier, Marc P ^b   Hassan, Ansar ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SAINT JOHN REGIONAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^d TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e Toronto General Hospital ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; BLOOD SALVAGE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OPERATIVE BLOOD SALVAGE; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PERIOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84989359883     PISSN: 0008428X     EISSN: 14882310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1503/cjs.002216     Document Type: Article

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