Venous oxygen saturation as a physiologic transfusion trigger

Benoit Vallet; Emmanuel Robin; Gilles Lebuffe

doi:10.1186/cc8854

Venous oxygen saturation as a physiologic transfusion trigger

Crit Care. 2010;14(2):213. doi: 10.1186/cc8854. Epub 2010 Mar 9.

Authors

Benoit Vallet¹, Emmanuel Robin, Gilles Lebuffe

Affiliation

¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Lille, Rue Michel Polonovski, Lille, France. [email protected]

PMID: 20236457
PMCID: PMC2887106
DOI: 10.1186/cc8854

Abstract

This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2010 (Springer Verlag) and co-published as a series in Critical Care. Other articles in the series can be found online at http://ccforum.com/series/yearbook. Further information about the Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine is available from http://www.springer.com/series/2855.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Blood Transfusion*
Catheterization, Central Venous
Decision Making*
Humans
Monitoring, Physiologic / methods*
Oxygen / blood*
Oxygen Consumption / physiology

Substances

Oxygen