Physical and thermal properties of blood storage bags: Implications for shipping frozen components on dry ice

Transfusion

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 836-846

  Hmel, Peter J ^a,b   Kennedy, Anthony ^a,b   Quiles, John G ^a,b   Gorogias, Martha ^a,b   Seelbaugh, Joseph P ^a,b   Morrissette, Craig R ^a,b   Van Ness, Kenneth ^a,b   Reid, T J ^a,b  

^a WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD STORAGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST; CRYOPRESERVATION; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICS; METHODOLOGY; PACKAGING; STANDARD; TEMPERATURE; TENSILE STRENGTH; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

BLOOD PRESERVATION; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; CRYOPRESERVATION; DRY ICE; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICS; PRODUCT PACKAGING; TEMPERATURE; TENSILE STRENGTH; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 0036651689     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.2002.00135.x     Document Type: Article

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