Is an age-of-blood transfusion trial in trauma patients in Australia and New Zealand feasible?

Critical Care and Resuscitation

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 159-161

  Aubron, Cecile ^a,d   Kaukonen, Kirsi Maija ^a   McQuilten, Zoe ^a,b   Cameron, Peter ^a,c   Bailey, Michael ^a   Cooper, D Jamie ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS BLOOD SERVICE   (Australia)

^c HAMAD MEDICAL CORPORATION   (Qatar)

^d Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); EDITORIAL; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; INJURY; NEW ZEALAND; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AUSTRALIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; NEW ZEALAND; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84887513035     PISSN: 14412772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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