Usage of blood products in multiple-casualty incidents: The experience of a level I trauma center in Israel

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 143, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 983-989

  Soffer, Dror ^a,b   Klausner, Josef ^a,b   Bar Zohar, Dan ^a,b   Szold, Oded ^a,b   Schulman, Carl I ^c   Halpern, Pinchas ^a,b   Shimonov, Avigail ^a,b   Hareuveni, Mara ^a   Ben Tal, Ofira ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD GROUP O; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJURY SEVERITY; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

BLOOD BANKS; BLOOD GROUPING AND CROSSMATCHING; CRITICAL CARE; DISASTER PLANNING; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; ISRAEL; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TERRORISM; TRAUMA CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAGE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 54349090585     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.143.10.983     Document Type: Article

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