A review of transfusion- and trauma-induced hypocalcemia: Is it time to change the lethal triad to the lethal diamond?

Affiliations

¹ From the George Washington University/United States Army Special Operations Command (R.M.D.); United States Army Special Operations Command (J.L.A.); Yale PA Online Program (W.J.E.), Yale University, New Haven, CT; United States Army Special Operations Command (C.J.R.); Medical Degree Preparatory Program, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (D.R.D.); University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (S.O.), Pittsburgh, PA; and Department of Emergency Medicine (J.S.), Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MS.

Review

Ricky Michael Ditzel Jr et al. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2020 Mar.

. 2020 Mar;88(3):434-439.

doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000002570.

¹ From the George Washington University/United States Army Special Operations Command (R.M.D.); United States Army Special Operations Command (J.L.A.); Yale PA Online Program (W.J.E.), Yale University, New Haven, CT; United States Army Special Operations Command (C.J.R.); Medical Degree Preparatory Program, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (D.R.D.); University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (S.O.), Pittsburgh, PA; and Department of Emergency Medicine (J.S.), Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MS.

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