Outcome of surgical patients who needed blood transfusion

Outcome of patients who refuse transfusion after cardiac surgery: a natural experiment with severe blood conservation.

BACKGROUND Jehovah's Witness patients (Witnesses) who undergo cardiac surgery provide a unique natural experiment in severe blood conservation because anemia, transfusion, erythropoietin, and antifibrinolytics have attendant risks. Our objective was to compare morbidity and long-term survival of Witnesses undergoing cardiac surgery with a similarly matched group of patients who received transfu...

Comparative analysis of autologous blood transfusion and allogeneic blood transfusion in surgical patients.

OBJECTIVE To investigate application effects of autologous blood transfusion and allogeneic blood transfusion in surgically treated patients receiving spine surgery, abdomen surgery and ectopic pregnancy surgery. METHODS 130 patients who would undergo selective operations were divided into autologous transfusion group and allogeneic transfusion group. Both groups received the same anesthesia,...

Evaluating Blood Requests and Transfusion Practice in Major Surgical Procedures

Background: Red blood cell and other blood products play a crucial role in management of different disease processes, but in spite of implementation of crucial steps to improve the process of request for blood and blood consumption, there is still not enough information available regarding the proper practice in many medical centres. We aimed to evaluate the status of blood product requests and...

Blood Transfusion Therapy in High Risk Surgical Patients

Outcome of ovarian cancer patients who underwent incomplete surgical staging.

OBJECTIVE To determine outcomes of patients with early stage epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) who underwent incomplete surgical staging with those who had complete surgical staging. MATERIAL AND METHOD Retrospective chart reviews were performed on early EOC (FIGO Stage I-II) patients who had registered in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital between...