Journal article
Factors Affecting Perioperative Transfusion Decisions in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
Abstract
BACKGROUND: A high proportion of patients having cardiac bypass surgery receive erythrocyte transfusions. Decisions about when to transfuse patients having surgery for coronary artery disease may impact on erythrocyte utilization and patient morbidity and mortality. There are no published data about the factors that influence physicians' decisions to transfuse erythrocytes to these patients. The objectives of this study were to determine the …
Authors
Shehata N; Wilson K; Mazer CD; Tomlinson G; Streiner D; Hebert P; Naglie G
Journal
Anesthesiology, Vol. 105, No. 1, pp. 19–27
Publisher
Wolters Kluwer
Publication Date
July 1, 2006
DOI
10.1097/00000542-200607000-00008
ISSN
0003-3022