Age of blood transfused article

[roctown]

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NY Times covered an Anesthesia and Analgesia article from July out of Duke finding signifigantly worse survival rates for patients who received older blood samples in intra-op blood transfusions. Interesting read, if some one can post original article that would be even better

NY Times link is
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/27/health/27blood.html

 

[The_Sensei]

Here's the link:

http://www.anesthesia-analgesia.org/cgi/content/abstract/103/1/15