Intraoperative real blood loss and transfusion in hepatectomy.

Blood loss and blood transfusion.

The assessment of blood loss following injury may be of considerable value when considering the question of replacement of such loss. The clinical picture of "traumatic shock"—hypotension, pallor, coldness of the extremities and cyanosis, suggests that urgent treatment is necessary. However, this picture may not be evident immediately after injury, despite its severity, particularly in young he...

Operative Time Directly Correlates with Blood Loss and Need for Blood Transfusion in Total Joint Arthroplasty

Background: Allogeneic blood transfusion in patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty (TJA) has been shown tonegatively affect patient outcomes. This study aimed to examine if there is a correlation between operative time and theneed for allogeneic blood transfusions during TJA.Methods: We performed a retrospective review of 866 patients who underwent primary TJA during a o...

Desmopressin does not decrease blood loss and transfusion requirements in patients undergoing hepatectomy.

PURPOSE To determine the effects of desmopressin on coagulation and blood loss in patients undergoing elective partial hepatectomy. METHODS A randomized, controlled and double-blind study on 59 patients who received either 0.3 micro g x kg(-1) of desmopressin or an equal volume of normal saline (control) infused intravenously over 20 min after induction of general anesthesia. RESULTS There ...

Intraoperative blood loss is a risk factor for complications in donors after living donor hepatectomy.

Complications in a donor are a distressing but inevitable occurrence, since graft procurement is a major undertaking. Although the technique for procurement has some similarities to hepatic resection, a donor is very unlike a patient with malignancy. The risk factors identified in these patients cannot be extrapolated to donors. Donor hepatectomy carried out from June 1995 to March 2005 in Chan...

Major Hepatectomy without Allogeneic Blood Transfusion for Hepatocellular Carcinoma