Red blood cell transfusion may be more detrimental than anemia for the clinical outcome of patients with severe traumatic brain injury

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¹ Critical Care Division, University Hospital 'Virgen del Rocío', Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos, 1ª planta, Avda Manuel Siurot s/n, 41013, Seville, Spain. srlealnoval@gmail.com.
² Critical Care Division, University Hospital 'Virgen del Rocío', Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos, 1ª planta, Avda Manuel Siurot s/n, 41013, Seville, Spain.
³ Department of Surgical Specialties, Biochemistry and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Málaga, campus de Teatinos s/n, 29010, Málaga, Spain.

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Santiago R Leal-Noval et al. Crit Care. 2019.

. 2019 May 27;23(1):189.

doi: 10.1186/s13054-019-2470-1.

¹ Critical Care Division, University Hospital 'Virgen del Rocío', Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos, 1ª planta, Avda Manuel Siurot s/n, 41013, Seville, Spain. srlealnoval@gmail.com.
² Critical Care Division, University Hospital 'Virgen del Rocío', Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos, 1ª planta, Avda Manuel Siurot s/n, 41013, Seville, Spain.
³ Department of Surgical Specialties, Biochemistry and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Málaga, campus de Teatinos s/n, 29010, Málaga, Spain.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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