Restrictive transfusion threshold is safe in high-risk patients undergoing brain tumor surgery

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 163, Issue , 2017, Pages 103-107

  Alkhalid, Yasmine ^a   Lagman, Carlito ^a   Sheppard, John P ^a   Nguyen, Thien ^a   Prashant, Giyarpuram N ^a   Ziman, Alyssa F ^a   Yang, Isaac ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g}  

^a UCSF Department of Epidemiology   (United States)

^b Departments of Radiation Oncology   (United States)

^c Departments of Head and Neck Surgery   (United States)

^d Departments of Pathology   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f Department of Neurosurgery ^*  (United States)

^g HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood transfusion; Brain neoplasm; Neurosurgery

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIOTOMY; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COMPLICATION; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROCEDURES; RISK; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK;

EID: 85032277664     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: 18726968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2017.10.018     Document Type: Article

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