Nurses perspective of apheresis in SARS-CoV-2 infected patients.

Transfus Apher Sci

Sanquin Blood Supply, Unit of Transfusion Medicine, Plesmanlaan 125, 1066 CX Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Published: April 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic had world wide an enormous impact on the complete global population and all daily activities. Not only in the work related situation, but also in the private. Fear to become infected, or infect third parties (family and other patients) is present, and in the same time organizing an apheresis unit country wide is a challenge.

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