Iatrogenic Blood Loss in Very Low Birth Weight Infants and Transfusion of Packed Red Blood Cells in a Tertiary Care Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

• Autores principales: Ahmed Aboalqez (Autor), Philipp Deindl (Autor), Chinedu Ulrich Ebenebe (Autor), Dominique Singer (Autor), Martin Ernst Blohm (Autor)
• Formato: Libro
• Publicado: MDPI AG, 2021-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Materias: article
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An adequate blood volume is important for neonatal adaptation. The study objective was to quantify the cumulative iatrogenic blood loss in very low birth weight (VLBW) infants by blood sampling and the necessity of packed red cell transfusions from birth to discharge from the hospital. In total, 132...