Should more conservative blood transfusion thresholds be adopted in head and neck surgery?
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Blood transfusion requirements in otolaryngology--head and neck surgery.
BACKGROUND Blood requirements for Head and Neck surgical procedures have not been studied carefully. In order to set up an autotransfusion program, the blood loss and transfusion requirements should be known precisely. METHODS The blood bank database was used to determine which Head and Neck procedures required blood transfusion during the previous 5 years. A list of 10 transfusion-associated...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Laryngoscope
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0023-852X
DOI: 10.1002/lary.26560