Relationship between postoperative anemia and cardiac morbidity in high-risk vascular patients in the intensive care unit
NELSON A, FLEISHER L, ROSENBAUM S. Relationship between postoperative anemia and cardiac morbidity in high-risk vascular patients in the intensive care unit. Critical Care Medicine 1993, 21: 860-866. PMID: 8504653, DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199306000-00013.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAgedAnemiaBlood TransfusionCase-Control StudiesConnecticutElectrocardiography, AmbulatoryFemaleHematocritHumansIncidenceIntensive Care UnitsMaleMyocardial InfarctionMyocardial IschemiaPeripheral Vascular DiseasesPostoperative ComplicationsRecovery RoomRisk FactorsROC CurveSensitivity and SpecificityConceptsMorbid cardiac eventsPostoperative myocardial ischemiaCardiac eventsIntensive care unitMyocardial ischemiaPostoperative anemiaCare unitCardiac morbidityHeart rateExact testHigh-risk vascular patientsSurgical intensive care unitIschemic pulmonary edemaHigh-risk patientsPostanesthesia care unitST-segment elevationBaseline heart rateCase-control studyFisher's exact testArterial bypass proceduresAmbulatory electrocardiographic recordersNonanemic patientsCardiac outcomesPostoperative periodUnstable angina