Implementing Patient Blood Management in major orthopaedic procedures: orthodoxy or pragmatism?

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Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Perioperative protocol to reduce blood transfusions in total knee o hip replacement patientsRevista de la Facultad de Ciencias Medicas (Cordoba, Argentina) · 2021
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2. Peri-operative treatment of anaemia in major orthopaedic surgery: a practical approach from Spain.Blood transfusion = Trasfusione del sangue · 2017
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3. Red cell requisition and utilization pattern in a tertiary care hospital of South India.Annals of African medicine
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Corrections and comments

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  Patient blood management in orthopaedic surgery: a four-year follow-up of transfusion requirements and blood loss from 2008 to 2011 at the Balgrist University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland.2014

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