The future of transfusion and Africa

Transfusion

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2791-2794

  Dzik, Walter ^a   Delaney, Meghan ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; BILIRUBIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANEMIA; BIOCHEMISTRY; BLOOD; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAFETY; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; COOMBS TEST; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; JAUNDICE; MALARIA; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PLASMA TRANSFUSION; POPULATION GROWTH; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; TEACHING HOSPITAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSFUSION MEDICINE; VASCULARIZATION; AFRICA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; TRENDS;

AFRICA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HUMANS;

EID: 84912116174     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/trf.12823     Document Type: Review

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