Advances and Controversies in Neonatal ICU Platelet Transfusion Practice

Advances in Pediatrics

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 255-269

  Christensen, Robert D ^a,b  

^a Division of Neonatology   (United States)

^b McKay Dee Hospital Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEEDING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; NEONATAL ALLOIMMUNE THROMBOCYTOPENIA; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; REVIEW; STANDARD; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THROMBOCYTOPENIA, NEONATAL ALLOIMMUNE;

EID: 52249103100     PISSN: 00653101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yapd.2008.07.003     Document Type: Review

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