Significance of Blood Transfusion Units in Determining the Probability of Mortality among Elderly Trauma Patients Based on the Geriatric Trauma Outcome Scoring System: A Cross-Sectional Analysis Based on Trauma Registered Data

Background: For elderly trauma patients, a prognostic tool called the Geriatric Trauma Outcome Score (GTOS), where GTOS = (age) + (ISS × 2.5) + (22 if any packed red blood cells (pRBCs) were transfused within 24 h after admission), was developed for predicting mortality. In such calculation, a score...

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Autores principales: Wu, Shao-Chun, Rau, Cheng-Shyuan, Kuo, Pao-Jen, Liu, Hang-Tsung, Hsu, Shiun-Yuan, Hsieh, Ching-Hua
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6210511/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30340313
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15102285

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6210511/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30340313
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15102285

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