Optimization of red blood cell unit storage during SARS-COV-2 Pandemic: adopting new strategies to ensure supply in a decentralized blood bank in Brazil

Introduction: As coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) spread worldwide and social restrictions were intensified, difficulties in blood supply were expected to result in a shortage of blood donors, logistic issues and a change in blood consumption. Consequences could be detrimental to the meeting of t...

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Main Authors: Cristiano Batista Costa, Afonso José Pereira Cortez, Daiane Daniela Adão, Carolina Maganha de Almeida, Ellen Mari Taguchi, Ingrid de Oliveira, Janaína Fernanda de Oliveira Santos, Ana Paula Rodrigues da Rosa, Juliana Trapanotto da Silva Tokunaga, Carine Prisco Arnoni, Flavia Roche Moreira Latini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-07-01
Series:Hematology, Transfusion and Cell Therapy
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2531137921000523