Tolerating anemia: Taking aim at the right target before pulling the transfusion trigger

Transfusion

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 2595-2597

  Koch, Colleen G ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; TREATMENT INDICATION; ACUTE DISEASE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PROCEDURES;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANEMIA; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 84908370096     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/trf.12832     Document Type: Review

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