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We thank Dr. Boucek for his insightful review of degassing as it relates to blood product transfusion and its clinical comparisons with transfusion-associated circulatory overload. Certainly, we acknowledge that the clinical diagnosis of transfusion-associated circulatory overload is one that remains a challenge for clinicians, both in real time and in retrospective clinical research. Indeed, this has been demonstrated by multiple authors in the field and has compounded the difficulties in studying this important transfusion-related complication.
Source: Anesthesiology - Category: Anesthesiology Source Type: research