Outcomes Using a Conservative Versus Liberal Red Blood Cell Transfusion Strategy in Infants Requiring Cardiac Operation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 206-214

  Cholette, Jill M ^a   Swartz, Michael F ^a   Rubenstein, Jeffrey ^a   Henrichs, Kelly F ^a   Wang, Hongyue ^b   Powers, Karen S ^a   Daugherty, L Eugene ^a   Alfieris, George M ^a   Gensini, Francisco ^a   Blumberg, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; LACTIC ACID;

ARTERIAL GAS; ARTERIOVENOUS OXYGEN DIFFERENCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NORWOOD PROCEDURE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT INDICATION; VULNERABLE POPULATION; BLOOD; FOLLOW UP; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84997269631     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.05.049     Document Type: Article

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