Blood transfusion strategies for total knee arthroplasty: Minimizing autologous blood wastage, risk of homologous blood transfusion, and transfusion cost

Journal of Arthroplasty

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 70-76

  Knight, Jonathan L ^a   Sherer, David ^b   Guo, Jie ^c  

^a CENTER FOR HEALTH STUDIES   (United States)

^b Clin Lab Grp Hlth Coop Puget S

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Autologous blood; Blood product cost; Homologous blood usage; Postoperative blood recovery; Total knee arthroplasty

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COST; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; SEX DIFFERENCE; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0031894483     PISSN: 08835403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0883-5403(98)90077-8     Document Type: Article

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