Blood use in war and disaster: Lessons from the past century

Transfusion

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1622-1633

  Hess, John R ^a   Thomas, M J G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGERIA; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; CRYOPRESERVATION; DISASTER; ERYTHROCYTE PRESERVATION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FATALITY; IRELAND; KOREA; LEBANON; REVIEW; SOMALIA; SPAIN; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; VIET NAM; WAR;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DISASTERS; EUROPE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAST; UNITED STATES; WAR;

EID: 0242523644     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.2003.00576.x     Document Type: Review

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