Blood Transfusion in World War I: The Roles of Lawrence Bruce Robertson and Oswald Hope Robertson in the "Most Important Medical Advance of the War"

Transfusion Medicine Reviews

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 232-236

  Stansbury, Lynn G ^a   Hess, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; BLOOD STORAGE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANADA; DYING; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; MILITARY MEDICINE; PATIENT SAFETY; RESUSCITATION; UNITED STATES; WAR;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; PORTRAITS AS TOPIC; WORLD WAR I;

EID: 66949161130     PISSN: 08877963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmrv.2009.03.007     Document Type: Article

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