Scaling up donation and transplantation programs in the COVID-19 era: the Spanish experience in brief.
Spain has been one of the countries most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The surge of patients overwhelmed the health system capacity, and intensive care units (ICUs) collapsed under the high demand of admissions. Although endowed with a leading transplant system, donation and transplantation rat...
| Publicado en: | Transplant Journal of Australasia Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 5 - 9 |
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| Formato: | algorithm tables/charts Journal Article |
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Cambridge Publishing
2020
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