Sanguine: Visual analysis for patient blood management

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...

A sanguine experience

A 68-year-old man attended the Accident and Emergency department with increasing breathlessness but no chest pain, sputum production or haemoptysis. He had recently returned from holiday in Spain and his general practitioner prescribed amoxicillin for a presumed chest infection. He was a diet-controlled type 2 diabetic on treatment for hypertension. He had a 40-pack-year smoking history and had...

langauge needs analysis of undergraduate business management and economics students

the aim of conducting this study was to investigate the foreign language learning needs of undergraduate economics students and business management students in faculties of social sciences of alzahra and azad naragh university. in the study, which was designed on the basis of a qualitative-quantitative basis using interviews and questionnaires, 146 female undergraduate business management as we...

Feature importance analysis for patient management decisions

The objective of this paper is to understand what characteristics and features of clinical data influence physician's decision about ordering laboratory tests or prescribing medications the most. We conduct our analysis on data and decisions extracted from electronic health records of 4486 post-surgical cardiac patients. The summary statistics for 335 different lab order decisions and 407 medic...