Pre-transfusion management of children with severe malarial anaemia: a randomised controlled trial of intravascular volume expansion.
Symptomatic severe malarial anaemia (SMA) has a high fatality rate of 30-40%; most deaths occur in children awaiting blood transfusion. Blood transfusion services in most of Africa are not capable of delivering adequate supplies of safe blood in a timely manner to critically ill children with SMA. C...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2005
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