Developed by the Task Force on Blood Component Therapy: Linda C. Stehling, MD, (Chair), Scottsdale, Arizona; Dennis C. Doherty, D.O., Atlanta, Georgia; Ronald J. Faust, MD, Rochester, Minnesota; A. Gerson Greenburg, MD, Ph.D. (Representative, American College of Surgeons), Providence, Rhode Island; Chantal R. Harrison, MD (Representative, College of American Pathologists), San Antonio, Texas; Dennis F. Landers, MD, Dallas, Texas; Russell K. Laros, Jr., MD (Representative, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists), San Francisco, California; Ellison C. Pierce, Jr., MD, Boston, Massachusetts; Randall S. Prust, MD, Tucson, Arizona; Andrew D. Rosenberg, MD, New York, New York; Richard B. Weiskopf, MD, San Francisco, California; Steven H. Woolf, MD, M.P.H. (Methodologist), Fairfax, Virginia; and John F. Zeiger, MD, Ft. Wayne, Indiana.
Submitted for publication November 1, 1995. Accepted for publication November 7, 1995. Supported by the American Society of Anesthesiologists, under the direction of James F. Arens, MD, Chairman of the Committee on Practice Parameters. Approved by the House of Delegates, October 25, 1995.
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