Practical guidelines for process validation and process control of white cell-reduced blood components: Report of the Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion (BEST) Working Party of the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT)

Transfusion

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 11-20

  Dumont, L J ^a   Dzik, W H ^b,c   Rebulla, P ^d   Brandwein, H ^e  

^a Gambro BCT   (United States)

^b Deaconess Hospital

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

^e PALL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BLOOD COMPONENT; BLOOD COMPONENT THERAPY; CONTROL SYSTEM; LEUKOCYTE; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BLOOD COMPONENT REMOVAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CELL SEPARATION; FILTRATION; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT;

EID: 0030056839     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.1996.36196190510.x     Document Type: Article

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