Transfusion Medicine in Sub-Saharan Africa: Conference Summary

Transfusion Medicine Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 195-204

  Dzik, Walter Sunny ^a   Kyeyune, Dorothy ^b,c   Otekat, Grace ^b   Natukunda, Bernard ^d   Hume, Heather ^c   Kasirye, Phillip G ^c   Ddungu, Henry ^c   Kajja, Isaac ^c   Dhabangi, Aggrey ^c   Mugyenyi, Godfrey R ^d   Seguin, Claire ^a   Barnes, Linda ^e   Delaney, Meghan ^e  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Uganda National Blood Transfusion Service   (Uganda)

^c MAKERERE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Uganda)

^d MBARARA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Uganda)

^e PUGET SOUND BLOOD CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Conference proceedings; Sub Saharan Africa; Transfusion medicine

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; HYDROXYUREA;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ALLOIMMUNIZATION; ANEMIA; BLOOD COMPONENT; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; CANCER PATIENT; ERYTHROCYTE; HEMODILUTION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NURSING CARE; OBSTETRICS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDIATRICS; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER; TRANSFUSION MEDICINE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BLOOD STORAGE; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD PRESERVATION; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; TRANSFUSION MEDICINE;

EID: 84930570879     PISSN: 08877963     EISSN: 15329496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmrv.2015.02.003     Document Type: Review

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