The need to label red blood cell units with their haemoglobin content: A single centre study on haemoglobin variations due to donor-related factors

Blood Transfusion

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 520-526

  Agnihotri, Naveen ^a   Pal, Lokesh ^a   Thakur, Manish ^a   Kumar, Pravin ^a  

^a FORTIS HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Blood transfusion; Hb content; Hb increase; Pre donation Hb; RBC overtransfusion

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD DONOR; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR SELECTION; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG LABELING; METABOLISM; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ADULT; BLOOD DONORS; DRUG LABELING; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84908698738     PISSN: 17232007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2450/2014.0231-13     Document Type: Article

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