Methods of reducing blood loss and non-blood substitutes
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Blood and blood substitutes.
Each year, in Europe, approximately seven million units of colloidal plasma substitutes are given to patients. Often they are used uncritically, which may account for the increased incidence of sideeffects which has been noted over the last decade. Their increasing use is understandable in view of the disadvantages of using blood; these include the difficulties in finding sufficient donors of a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0832-610X,1496-8975
DOI: 10.1007/bf03008191