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Febrile Transfusion Reactions Reduced by Use of Buffy‐Coat‐Poor Erythrocyte Concentrates
Author(s) -
Liedén Gudrun,
Hildén JanOlof
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
vox sanguinis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.68
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1423-0410
pISSN - 0042-9007
DOI - 10.1111/j.1423-0410.1982.tb00023.x
Subject(s) - buffy coat , medicine , incidence (geometry) , blood transfusion , whole blood , intensive care medicine , immunology , optics , physics
In a medium‐sized Swedish hospital there was a switch on a certain date from unprepared whole blood to buffy‐coat‐poor concentrates in all erythrocyte transfusions. The incidence of febrile transfusion reactions decreased by half.