Acute lung injury after blood transfusion in mechanically ventilated patients.
Retrospective study aimed to identify risk factors for acute lung injury in mechanically ventilated patients. Storage time of RBCs seemed not to be a risk factor but the storage time […]
Why do physicians request fresh frozen plasma?
The authors are right in proposing clinical trials demonstrating the therapeutic indication of FFP. At a time in which everybody asks for evidence-based medicine (often because of economic reasons), which […]
Multivariate predictors of blood product use in cardiac surgery.
Prospective current study on factors influencing need of blood transfusion in cardiac surgery. Logical results. – Volker Kretschmer