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Letter to the Editor| Volume 50, ISSUE 3, P817-818, March 2019

Calcium management in massive hemorrhage protocols

Published:January 15, 2019DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.injury.2019.01.023
      We read with great interest the article by Chin et al. [
      • Chin V.
      • Cope S.
      • Yeh C.H.
      • Thompson T.
      • Nascimento B.
      • Pavenski K.
      • et al.
      Massive hemorrhage protocol survey: Marked variability and absent in one-third of hospitals in Ontario, Canada.
      ], which provides compelling information about the heterogeneity in Massive hemorrhage protocols (MHP) among all hospitals in Ontario with a transfusion service.
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