Patient blood management in India - Review of current practices and feasibility of applying appropriate standard of care guidelines. A position paper by an interdisciplinary expert group

• Main Authors: Ajay Gandhi (Author), Klaus Görlinger (Author), Sukesh C Nair (Author), Poonam M Kapoor (Author), Anjan Trikha (Author), Yatin Mehta (Author), Anil Handoo (Author), Anil Karlekar (Author), Jyoti Kotwal (Author), Joseph John (Author), Shashikant Apte (Author), Vijay Vohra (Author), Gajendra Gupta (Author), Aseem K Tiwari (Author), Anjali Rani (Author), Shweta A Singh (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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In a developing country like India, with limited resources and access to healthcare facilities, dealing with massive hemorrhage is a major challenge. This challenge gets compounded by pre-existing anemia, hemostatic disorders, and logistic issues of timely transfer of such patients from peripheral h...