A hypothesis by Wan et al
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suggests that critically ill patients in the surgical intensive care unit might benefit
from being transfused to a normal hematocrit. They attempt to justify their opinion
by citing references to the beneficial effects of blood doping in the sports medicine
literature. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if patients behaved like world class athletes?
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Accepted:
September 1,
2006
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© 2007 Mosby, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
