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Erythropoietin response to critical illness

DOI

127

Citations

0

References

1994

Year

Brian Krafte‐Jacobs, Marcia Levetown, Gordon L. Bray, Urs E. Ruttimann, Murray M. Pollack
Critical Care Medicine

Abstract

The erythropoietin response to known physiologic stimuli is blunted in critically ill children. This blunted erythropoietin response may result in increased transfusion requirements.