Minimal transfusions: First do no harm

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 55-56

  Holcomb, John B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NOTE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; WOUND COMPLICATION; FEMALE; MALE; PEROPERATIVE CARE; STATISTICS;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; MALE;

EID: 84856005295     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2011.1417     Document Type: Note

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