Blood components should be labeled for content

Transfusion

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-4

  Davenport, Robertson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

APHERESIS; BLOOD; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD COMPONENT THERAPY; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD VOLUME; EDITORIAL; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; PLATELET COUNT; PLATELET TRANSFUSION;

EID: 12744281475     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2005.04323.x     Document Type: Editorial

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