Short Communication Open Access
Volume 2 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.33696/haematology.2.025
Pre-operative Intravenous Iron to Optimise Patients Before Cardiac Surgery
N Patel1, C R Evans2,*
- 1ST6 Anaesthesia Research Fellow, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, UK
- 2Consultant Cardiothoracic Anaesthetist, Department of Anaesthesia, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, UK
Corresponding Author
C R Evans, caroline.evans5@wales.nhs.uk
Received Date: March 28, 2021
Accepted Date: April 19, 2021
Patel N, Evans CR. Pre-operative Intravenous Iron to Optimise Patients Before Cardiac Surgery. J Clin Haematol. 2021; 2(1): 24-35.
Copyright: © 2021 Patel N, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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