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Massive Transfusion in the Intensive Care Unit

Department of Transfusion Medicine, Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Harvey G. Klein

Department of Transfusion Medicine, Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

The transfusion of blood components is a frequent oc currence in intensive care units. Transfusion therapy demands not only a greater ability to meet the needs of acutely ill patients with an enlarging variety of blood components, but also an increasing awareness of previ ously recognized and newly discovered hazards of blood transfusion. Use of the more commonly adminis tered blood components is reviewed, and problems per tinent to the large-volume massively or multiply trans fused patient are discussed.

Journal of Intensive Care Medicine, Vol. 4, No. 5, 221-233 (1989)
DOI: 10.1177/088506668900400506


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