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- Title
What should trigger a transfusion?
- Authors
Jeffrey L. Carson; Mercy Kuriyan
- Abstract
The authors reflect on the importance of performing red blood cell (RBC) transfusion to increase oxygen delivery of patients in the intensive care unit. The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) concluded that transfusion must be based according to patient's intravascular volume status, evidence of shock, and duration of anemia and cardiopulumonary physiologic parameters. Transfusion Trigger Trial for Functional Outcome in Cardiovascular Patients Undergoing Surgical is also considered.
- Publication
Transfusion, 2010, Vol 50, Issue 10, p2073
- ISSN
0041-1132
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1111/j.1537-2995.2010.02880.x