Patient Blood Management: por onde começar?

Causação Mental: Onde Estivemos e Onde Estamos

This paper aims at generally situating the issue of mental causation in the contemporary debate in the philosophy of mind. From the work of authors such as Smart, Putnam, Davidson and, more importantly, Kim, I shall try to delineate what came to be known, since the fifties, as the main efforts to solve the problem of mental causation. In consonance with Kim’s work, I shall claim that the type-t...

Interação academia-indústria: onde estamos e para onde queremos ir

RESUMO Há muito tem se discutido sobre a necessidade de uma interação mais forte entre a academia e a indústria. Fala-se também de um isolamento das universidades do restante da sociedade e da pouca aplicabilidade dos esforços desenvolvidos por seus pesquisadores. Por outro lado, as corporações sentem falta de uma contribuição mais efetiva das universidades na formação de profissionais preparad...

Patient blood management

Patient blood management in Europe

Preoperative anaemia is common in patients undergoing orthopaedic and other major surgery. Anaemia is associated with increased risks of postoperative mortality and morbidity, infectious complications, prolonged hospitalization, and a greater likelihood of allogeneic red blood cell (RBC) transfusion. Evidence of the clinical and economic disadvantages of RBC transfusion in treating perioperativ...

Patient blood management--the new frontier.

As one of the oldest and most common procedures in clinical practice, allogeneic blood transfusions face many issues including questionable safety and efficacy, increasing costs and limited supply. The need to provide effective care for a relatively small population of patients who could not be transfused for various reasons gave rise to 'bloodless medicine and surgery', which was subsequently ...