Unwashed shed blood: Should we transfuse it?

Blood Transfusion

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 241-245

  Liumbruno, Giancarlo Maria ^a   Waters, Jonathan H ^b  

^a SAN GIOVANNI CALIBITA FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEEDING; BLOOD; BLOOD CELL; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; NONHUMAN; THROMBOCYTE; UNWASHED SHED BLOOD;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION, AUTOLOGOUS; HUMANS; OPERATIVE BLOOD SALVAGE;

EID: 79960673857     PISSN: 17232007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2450/2011.0109-10     Document Type: Editorial

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