The controversy over the age of blood: What do the clinical trials really teach us?

Blood Transfusion

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 112-115

  Belpulsi, Danamarie ^a   Spitalnik, Steven L ^a   Hod, Eldad A ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood transfusion; Haemolysis; Non transferrin bound iron; Red blood cell; Storage lesion

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANEMIA; BLOOD STORAGE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE LIFESPAN; ERYTHROCYTE PRESERVATION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEMOLYSIS; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT SAFETY; POPULATION; PREMATURITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REFRIGERATION; REVIEW; TISSUE OXYGENATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; PROCEDURES; TIME FACTOR;

BLOOD PRESERVATION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85015014709     PISSN: 17232007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2450/2017.0328-16     Document Type: Review

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