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Alternatives to standard blood transfusion: availability and promise
Author(s) -
Prowse
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
transfusion medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.471
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1365-3148
pISSN - 0958-7578
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-3148.1999.00212.x
Subject(s) - intensive care medicine , medicine , blood bank , blood transfusion , platelet transfusion , blood preservation , platelet , medical emergency , surgery , immunology , physiology
Largely due to concerns over safety, a wide variety of alternatives to the conventional blood bank products of red cells, platelet concentrates, plasma and fractionated plasma products are under development. This review attempts to survey the alternative therapies that are being developed, whether they provide viable solutions and what impact they might have on transfusion practice.