Improving platelet transfusion practices in the neonatal intensive care unit

Transfusion

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2281-2284

  Christensen, Robert D ^a   Paul, David A ^b   Sola Visner, Martha C ^b   Baer, Vickie L ^b  

^a NICU   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; PROPHYLAXIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

BLOOD PLATELETS; CELL SIZE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PILOT PROJECTS; PLATELET COUNT; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THROMBOCYTOPENIA, NEONATAL ALLOIMMUNE; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 55349117447     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2008.01928.x     Document Type: Review

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