Reinfusion drains reduce postoperative transfusion requirements after primary total knee replacement surgery

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 269-271

  Munoz M ^a,b   Ariza, D ^a   Florez, A ^a   Campos, A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA VICTORIA   (Spain)

^b Facultad de Medicina   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALLOGENEIC RED CELL TRANSFUSION; BLEEDING; BLOOD; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; UNWASHED FILTERED SHED BLOOD;

AGED; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION, AUTOLOGOUS; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 49849097363     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: 13653148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3148.2008.00867.x     Document Type: Letter

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