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Chapter 11 - Transfusion Therapy and Common Hematologic Problems in the Critically Ill Elderly

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 October 2018

Shamsuddin Akhtar
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Yale University School of Medicine
Stanley Rosenbaum
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