Postoperative red blood cell transfusion and morbid outcome in uncomplicated cardiac surgery patients

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 97-109

  Möhnle, Patrick ^a   Snyder Ramos, Stephanie A ^a,b   Miao, Yinghui ^c   Kulier, Alexander ^a,d   Böttiger, Bernd W ^a,e   Levin, Jack ^a,f   Mangano, Dennis T ^c  

^a Multicenter Study of Perioperative Ischemia (McSPI) Research Group   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c Ischemia Research and Education Foundation   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac morbidity; Cardiac surgery; Infection morbidity; RBC transfusion

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MORBIDITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION;

EID: 85028110244     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-010-2017-z     Document Type: Article

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