Core and surface temperatures in a red-blood-cell unit during storage and transport

Vox Sanguinis

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 10-15

  Reiter, U ^a   Wagner, T ^a   Kozma, N ^a   Reiter, G ^b   Lanzer, G ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

RBC; Storage; Temperature tracing; Transport

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD STORAGE; COOLING; CORE TEMPERATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOW TEMPERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STORAGE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOCOUPLE; THERMOMETER; WARMING;

BLOOD PRESERVATION; COLD TEMPERATURE; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; THERMOMETERS; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 79958821234     PISSN: 00429007     EISSN: 14230410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1423-0410.2010.01452.x     Document Type: Article

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