Autotransfusion of blood contaminated by enteric contents: A potentially life-saving measure in the massively hemorrhaging trauma patient?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1988, Pages 855-857

  Timberlake, Gregory A ^a   McSwain, Norman E ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEEDING; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FATALITY; HUMAN; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOCK;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADULT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION, AUTOLOGOUS; EMERGENCIES; FECES; HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INFECTION; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0023755755     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-198806000-00026     Document Type: Article

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