What should trigger a transfusion?

Transfusion

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2073-2075

  Carson, Jeffrey L ^a   Kuriyan, Mercy ^b  

^a Division of General Internal Medicine   (United States)

^b ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

BLEEDING; BLOOD VOLUME; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EDITORIAL; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEART OUTPUT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE;

AGED; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDICS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78649484204     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2010.02880.x     Document Type: Editorial

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