Should all massively transfused patients be treated equally? An analysis of massive transfusion ratios in the nontrauma setting

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 1311-1316

  Etchill, Eric W ^a   Myers, Sara P ^a   McDaniel, Lauren M ^b   Rosengart, Matthew R ^a   Raval, Jay S ^c   Triulzi, Darrell J ^a   Peitzman, Andrew B ^a   Sperry, Jason L ^a   Neal, Matthew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS CHILDREN S CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

blood component transfusion; platelet transfusion; red blood cell transfusion; resuscitation; surgical procedures

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA;

ADULT; APACHE; ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT HEMORRHAGE; BLOOD COMPONENT; BLOOD COMPONENT THERAPY; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRECIPITATE; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER HEMORRHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASSIVE TRANSFUSION; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS HEMORRHAGE; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PLASMA TRANSFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURVIVAL RATE; THORAX SURGERY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; TREATMENT INDICATION; AGED; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MORTALITY; PROCEDURES; SURGERY; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD COMPONENT TRANSFUSION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 85019570763     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000002498     Document Type: Article

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