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cord-016871-1mlamf20	Streiff, Agathe	Hemorrhage and Transfusions in the Surgical Patient	2012-10-30		.txt	text/plain	9056	429	46	In acutely bleeding patients, massive transfusion protocols are often activated in order to ef fi caciously restore blood volume and hemostasis and thawed plasma is critical to their success [ 5, 6 ] . DCR is also supported by fi ndings from the US Army's Institute of Surgical Research, which demonstrated improvement in outcomes in severely bleeding patients who were transfused in ratios of products similar to whole blood. However, some groups have shown that those patients receiving less than massive transfusion levels may still bene fi t from higher plasma to red blood cell ratios [ 20 ] . Silver et al.'s randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial investigated the role of epoetin alfa, a recombinant erythropoietin, in reducing the RBC transfusion requirement of long-term acute care patients, thereby reducing risks associated with transfusions [ 29 ] .	./cache/cord-016871-1mlamf20.txt	./txt/cord-016871-1mlamf20.txt