Clinical review: Canadian National Advisory Committee on Blood and Blood Products--Massive transfusion consensus conference 2011: report of the panel.

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Published in Crit Care on December 08, 2011

Authors

Walter H Dzik1, Morris A Blajchman, Dean Fergusson, Morad Hameed, Blair Henry, Andrew W Kirkpatrick, Teresa Korogyi, Sarvesh Logsetty, Robert C Skeate, Simon Stanworth, Charles MacAdams, Brian Muirhead

Author Affiliations

1: Blood Transfusion Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA. sdzik@partners.org

Associated clinical trials:

Exploring Self-regulatory Processes in Anesthesiologists During Massive Transfusion | NCT02199210

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