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Reviewing the blood ordering schedule for elective orthopedic surgeries at a level one trauma care center

BACKGROUND: Patients undergoing elective orthopedic surgeries often incur excess blood loss necessitating transfusion. The preoperative placement of blood requests frequently overshoots the actual need resulting in unnecessary crossmatching. AIMS: Our primary goal was to audit the blood utilization...

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Autores principales: Subramanian, Arulselvi, Rangarajan, Kanchana, Kumar, Sudeep, Sharma, Vijay, Farooque, Kamran, Misra, Mahesh Chandra
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2938486/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20930965
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2700.66521