Practice guidelines for blood component therapy: A report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Blood Component Therapy

Anesthesiology

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 732-747

  Stehling, Linda C ^a   Doherty, Dennis C ^a   Faust, Ronald J ^a   Greenburg, A Gerson ^b   Harrison, Chantal R ^c   Landers, Dennis F ^a   Laros Jr , Russell K ^d   Pierce Jr , Ellison C ^a   Prust, Randall S ^a   Rosenberg, Andrew D ^a   Weiskopf, Richard B ^a   Woolf, Steven H ^a   Zeiger, John F ^a  

^a American College of Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^b American College of Surgeons   (United States)

^c Molecular Pathology Division   (United States)

^d Amer Coll Obstetricians G   (United States)

Author keywords

anemia; blood component therapy; coagulopathy; cryoprecipitate; fresh frozen plasma; Practice guidelines; red blood cells; transfusion

Indexed keywords

BLEEDING; BLOOD COMPONENT THERAPY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; CRYOPRECIPITATION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0009776850     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199603000-00032     Document Type: Review

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