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Red Blood Cell Transfusion

Known as: Erythrocyte Transfusions, Transfusion, Erythrocyte, transfusion of red blood cells 
The transfer of erythrocytes from a donor to a recipient or reinfusion to the donor.
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Blood Component Transfusion
Transfusion of packed red blood cellslegislation & jurisprudencenursing therapystandards characteristics

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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Limitations of the hematocrit level to assess the need for red blood cell transfusion in hypovolemic anemic patients
BACKGROUND:  The transfusion trigger that physicians use to determine whether a patient requires a red blood cell (RBC… 
2002
2002
Red blood cell transfusions in critically ill patients.
TRANSFUSIONS OF PACKED RED BLOOD CELLS (RBCS), a complex biological product prepared from donated blood, are unique in many… 
2000
2000
Emergency coronary artery bypass graft surgery in abciximab-treated patients.
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Risk model for severe anemia requiring red blood cell transfusion after cytotoxic conventional chemotherapy regimens. The Elypse 1 Study Group.
PURPOSE Cancer patients frequently experience anemia as a consequence of myelosuppressive therapy or bone marrow invasion… 
Review
1994
Review
1994
The red blood cell transfusion trigger. Physiology and clinical studies.
The need for red blood cell transfusion is determined by the etiology, chronicity, and severity of anemia, the patient's ability… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
The Hospital Cost (Fiscal Year 1991/1992) of a Simple Perioperative Allongeneic Red Blood Cell Transfusion During Elective Surgery at Duke University
We sought to determine the actual cost to Duke University Medical Center of a perioperative red blood cell transfusion. A recent… 
Review
1990
Review
1990
Prediction of the need for transfusion during anemia of prematurity.
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Febrile Transfusion Reactions Reduced by Use of Buffy‐Coat‐Poor Erythrocyte Concentrates
In a medium‐sized Swedish hospital there was a switch on a certain date from unprepared whole blood to buffy‐coat‐poor… 
Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
Diplococcus pneumoniae infections in children with sickle cell anemia.
In the last 4⅓ years, 12 episodes of Diplococcus pneumoniae bacteremia or meningitis, or both, were observed in ten children with… 
1950
1950
Transfusion reactions to plasma constituent of whole blood; their pathogenesis and treatment by washed red blood cell transfusions.
1. The clinical histories of 11 patients with a severe and hitherto undescribed type of reaction to in vitro compatible whole… 
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