Patient blood management: The pragmatic solution for the problems with blood transfusions

Anesthesiology

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 951-953

  Spahn, Donat R ^a   Moch, Holger ^b   Hofmann, Axel ^c   Isbister, James P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Medical Society For Blood Management   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; IRON;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; BLEEDING; CANCER GROWTH; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEART DISEASE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR GROWTH; ANIMAL; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PROBLEM SOLVING; STANDARD;

ANIMALS; BLOOD BANKS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; PATIENT CARE; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 58149300172     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e31818e3d75     Document Type: Editorial

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