Best practice in critical care: anaemia in acute and critical illness

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 181-189

  Docherty, A B ^a   Turgeon, A F ^b   Walsh, T S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

anaemia; cardiovascular disease; critical care; red blood cells; transfusion; traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; OXYGEN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SEPSIS; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BLOOD; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANEMIA; BRAIN INJURIES, TRAUMATIC; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; SEPSIS;

EID: 85046630006     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: 13653148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tme.12505     Document Type: Review

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