Patient Blood Management. Three pillar strategy to improve outcome through avoidance of allogeneic blood products

Blood transfusions are commonly viewed as life-saving interventions; however, current evidence shows that blood transfusions are associated with a significant increase of morbidity and mortality in a dose-dependent relationship. Not only explanatory models of basic research but also the results from...

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Main Authors: Gombotz, Hans, Hofmann, Axel
Format: Journal Article
Published: Springer 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14192