TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Chapter 137. Transfusion Therapy A1 - Tran, T. Paul A2 - Cline, David M. A2 - Ma, O. John A2 - Cydulka, Rita K. A2 - Meckler, Garth D. A2 - Handel, Daniel A. A2 - Thomas, Stephen H. PY - 2012 T2 - Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine Manual, 7e AB - The goal of transfusion is to improve oxygen delivery to tissues, provide intravascular volume expansion, and to replace missing or depleted clotting factors in patients with clinically significant hemorrhage, anemia, thrombocytopenia or coagulopathy. Great care must be taken to ensure that the correct blood product is delivered to the correct patient. SN - PB - The McGraw-Hill Companies CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/20 UR - accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=56278266 ER -