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Estimated injury-associated blood loss versus availability of emergency blood products at a district-level public hospital in Cape Town, South Africa

INTRODUCTION: International guidance suggests that injury-associated haemorrhagic shock should be resuscitated using blood products. However, in low- and middle-income countries resuscitation emphasises the use of crystalloids – mainly due to poor access to blood products. This study aimed to estima...

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Autores principales: Weeber, Heinrich, Hunter, Luke D., van Hoving, Daniël J., Lategan, Hendrick, Bruijns, Stevan R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: African Federation for Emergency Medicine 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6223604/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30456151
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.afjem.2018.01.004