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Use of recombinant factor VIIa for major haemorrhage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2005

R. J. Pugh
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, UK Current address: Department of Anaesthesia, Countess of Chester Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, Cheshire, UK
R. Wenstone
Affiliation:
Directorate of Intensive Care, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, UK
V. J. Martlew
Affiliation:
Department of Haematology, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, UK
G. Marx
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesia, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK Current address: Ltd. OA Intensivetherapie, Klinik f. Anästhesiologie und Intensivtherapie, Klinikum der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany
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© 2005 European Society of Anaesthesiology

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