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Research highlight: Blood transfusions increase in PAMV patients
Patients requiring prolonged acute mechanical ventilation (PAMV) have a high likelihood of being transfused with multiple units of blood, independently contributing to an increase in hospital death, length of stay and cost.
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Not accurate method
(M. Ignacio Monge Garca, 28Mar2008)
Very interesting idea. But I think that there is something that has been omitted: to draw a venous return curve using the proposed methodology, one must assume that the cardiac...
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