Is stored blood good enough for critically ill patients?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 238-239

  Walsh, Timothy S ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anemia; Blood transfusion; Critical illness; Oxygen delivery; Red cell storage lesion

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD STORAGE; CELL AGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EDITORIAL; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LEUKOPENIA; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE OXYGENATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BLOOD PRESERVATION; CRITICAL CARE; ERYTHROCYTE AGING; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE REDUCTION PROCEDURES; OXYGEN; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 12244280828     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000150748.90441.9D     Document Type: Editorial

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