Relative safety of buffy coat platelet pools

Transfusion

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1591-1592

  Devine, Dana ^a   Jenkins, Craig ^a   Howe, David ^a   Goldman, Mindy ^a  

^a CANADIAN BLOOD SERVICES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APHERESIS; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; LETTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; THROMBOCYTE; TRANSFUSION RELATED ACUTE LUNG INJURY; UNITED STATES;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE REDUCTION PROCEDURES; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; PLATELETPHERESIS; SAFETY;

EID: 77954345108     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2010.02631.x     Document Type: Letter

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