pH and glucose testing of single-donor apheresis platelets should be discontinued in favor of a more sensitive detection method [4]

Transfusion

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 646-648

  Yomtovian, Roslyn ^a   Brecher, Mark E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITALS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; APHERESIS; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD PH; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LETTER; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 17044396853     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0041-1132.2005.00481.x     Document Type: Letter

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