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Transfusion therapy in the emergency department
1Department of Emergency Medicine, Maricopa Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona.
Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America
|May 1, 1993
This article reviews the basics of blood and blood component therapy, focusing on pretransfusion compatibility testing and the complications of blood transfusion (both infectious and noninfectious). Issues surrounding the massive transfusion of blood and alternatives to traditional chemotherapy also are discussed.
This article reviews the basics of blood and blood component therapy, focusing on pretransfusion compatibility testing and the complications of blood transfusion (both infectious and noninfectious). Issues surrounding the massive transfusion of blood and alternatives to traditional chemotherapy also are discussed.