Consider autotransfusion in the field

Military Medicine

Volumn 181, Issue 8, 2016, Pages e945-e947

  Hulsebos, Hans ^a,b   Bernard, Jared ^a,b  

^a 3rd Battalion 5th Marines ^*  (United States)

^b Captain James A Lovell Federal Health Care Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; BLOOD; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CHEST TUBE; ETHNOLOGY; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEMATOTHORAX; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HUMAN; INTRAOSSEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; PROCEDURES; SOLDIER; WAR; WARFARE;

ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; AFGHANISTAN; BLOOD TRANSFUSION, AUTOLOGOUS; CHEST TUBES; HEMOTHORAX; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAOSSEOUS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; SHOCK, HEMORRHAGIC; WARFARE; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 84982859482     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: 1930613X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-15-00046     Document Type: Article

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