Biomarkers to decide red blood cell transfusion in newborn infants

Transfusion

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2574-2582

  Banerjee, Jayanta ^a,b,c   Aladangady, Narendra ^a,b,d  

^a HOMERTON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Portland Hospital for Women and Children   (United Kingdom)

^d Department of Biochemistry   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; HEMOGLOBIN; LACTIC ACID;

AIR CONDITIONING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD VOLUME; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; REVIEW; BLOOD; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; NEWBORN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DECISION MAKING; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; TRIAGE;

EID: 84908061183     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/trf.12670     Document Type: Review

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