The association between borderline pre-operative anaemia in women and outcomes after cardiac surgery: a cohort study

Anaesthesia

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 572-578

  Blaudszun, G ^a   Munting, K E ^a   Butchart, A ^a   Gerrard, C ^a   Klein, A A ^a  

^a PAPWORTH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

anaemia; cardiac surgery; transfusion; women

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; HEMOGLOBIN;

AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYOPRECIPITATE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; BLOOD; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85045277536     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anae.14185     Document Type: Article

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