Transfusion Therapy in Critically Ill Children
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Transfusion practice in the critically ill.
BACKGROUND Anemia in the critically ill patient population is common. This anemia of critical illness is a distinct clinical entity characterized by blunted erythropoietin production and abnormalities in iron metabolism identical to what is commonly referred to as the anemia of chronic disease. FINDINGS As a result of this anemia, critically ill patients receive an extraordinarily large numbe...
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1 Assistant Professor, Road Traffic Injury Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran 2 Nursing Research Committee, Sina Hospital, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran 3 General Practitioner, Emergency Medicine Research Team, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran 4 Nursing Research Committee, Tabriz Children's Hospital, Tabriz University of...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pediatrics & Neonatology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1875-9572
DOI: 10.1016/s1875-9572(08)60004-2