Transfusion trigger - How precise are we? Intraoperative blood transfusion practices in a tertiary centre in Nigeria

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 211-215

  Desalu, I ^a   Dada, O I O ^a   Ahmed, R A ^a   Akin Williams, O O ^a   Ogun, H A ^a   Kushimo, O T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Appropriate; Blood transfusion; Intra operative; Transfusion trigger

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MALE; NIGERIA; PALLOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIOLOGY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 49749130803     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: 13653148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3148.2008.00858.x     Document Type: Article

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