Can we reduce routine blood ordering in spinal surgery?

Transfusion Alternatives in Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 138-142

  Kouritas, Vasileios ^a   Graham, Steve ^b   Marwah, Gautam ^a   Papastefanou, Sotiris L ^a,c  

^a Department of Orthopaedic and Spinal Surgery ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ATHENS MEDICAL CENTER   (Greece)

Author keywords

Blood units; Crossmatching ratio; Spinal surgery; Transfusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CONSERVATION; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; KYPHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE FUSION; SPINE SURGERY; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; SURGICAL PATIENT; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

EID: 79953286164     PISSN: 12959022     EISSN: 1778428X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1778-428X.2011.01148.x     Document Type: Article

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