Laboratory characteristics and clinical utility of post-operative cell salvage: Washed or unwashed blood transfusion?

Blood Transfusion

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 248-261

  Muñoz, Manuel ^a   Slappendel, Robert ^b   Thomas, Dafydd ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b Perioperative Medicine Consultancy   (Netherlands)

^c MORRISTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; FAT; FOLIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN;

BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER CELL CONTAMINATION; CONTAMINATION; HEMOLYSIS; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; NONHUMAN; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; REVIEW; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION, AUTOLOGOUS; HUMANS; OPERATIVE BLOOD SALVAGE; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79960690259     PISSN: 17232007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2450/2010.0063-10     Document Type: Review

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