Why do young women (donors) faint?

Transfusion

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 522-525

  Fu, Qi ^a   Levine, Benjamin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BLEEDING; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD VOLUME; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIA; MALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYNCOPE;

ADULT; BLOOD DONORS; DIZZINESS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; SEX FACTORS; SYNCOPE; TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 77649199646     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2010.02593.x     Document Type: Editorial

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