Mastectomy Blood Loss: Can We Predict the Need for Blood Transfusion?

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...

Factors affecting transfusion requirement after hip fracture: can we reduce the need for blood?

BACKGROUND Hip fractures are common injuries that result in blood loss and frequently require the transfusion of blood products. We sought to identify risk factors leading to increased blood transfusion in patients presenting with hip fractures, especially those factors that are modifiable. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the cases of all patients who had fixation of their hip fractures b...

Hot Blood for Transfusion

The importance of warming up the whole blood before transfusion , parti -cularly when large amounts of stored blood is used for patients in shock or under general anesthesia is discussed. Var­ious methods of Warming blood is presn­tcd and the use of high frequency Ele­ctromagnetic field for this purpose and its adv1mtagcs is introduced. 

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...

The need for autologous blood transfusion.