@article{c6d4641f9e5e42d59c459485d2ee77e2,
title = "Age of transfused blood is an independent risk factor for postinjury multiple organ failure",
author = "Garret Zallen and Offner, \{Patrick J\} and Moore, \{Ernest E\} and John Blackwell and Ciesla, \{David J\} and Julie Gabriel and Chris Denny and Silliman, \{Christopher C\}",
note = "Background Blood transfusion has repeatedly been demonstrated to be an independent risk factor for postinjury multiple organ failure (MOF). Previously believed to represent a surrogate for shock, packed red blood cell (PRBC) transfusion has recently been shown to result in neutrophil priming and pulmonary endothelial cell activation.",
year = "1999",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1016/S0002-9610(99)00239-1",
language = "American English",
volume = "178",
journal = "American Journal of Surgery",
issn = "1879-1883",
number = "6",
}