Revisiting blood transfusion and predictors of outcome in cardiac surgery patients: A concise perspective

F1000Research

Volumn 6, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Stoicea, Nicoleta ^a   Arias Morales, Carlos E ^a   Gonzalez Zacarias, Alicia A ^a   Slawski, Diana ^b   Bhandary, Sujatha P ^b   Saranteas, Theodosios ^c   Kaminiotis, Eva ^c   Papadimos, Thomas J ^b  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Blood transfusion; Cardiac surgery; Cardiopulmonary bypass; Length of stay; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; CARDIAC PATIENT; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MORTALITY RISK; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURVIVAL;

EID: 85015198741     PISSN: 20461402     EISSN: 1759796X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.10085.1     Document Type: Review

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