Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 21, Issue 2 , Pages 173-181 , June 2007

Physiologic transfusion triggers

  • Benoit Vallet, MD, PhD (Professor of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Head)

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Pôle d'Anesthésie & Réanimation, Hôpital Huriez – CHRU de Lille, Rue Michel Polonovski, F59037 – Lille cédex. Tel.: +33 3 20 44 51 96; Fax: +33 3 20 44 44 00.
  • Gilles Lebuffe, MD, PhD (Professor of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine)

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PII: S1521-6896(07)00019-5

doi: 10.1016/j.bpa.2007.02.003

Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 21, Issue 2 , Pages 173-181 , June 2007

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