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Association Between Hospital Intraoperative Blood Transfusion Practices for Surgical Blood Loss and Hospital Surgical Mortality Rates

Annals of Surgery, 2012
Blood loss during surgery is an important operative complication in patients undergoing major noncardiac surgery and may increase postoperative morbidity and mortality. Variations in the delivery of operative blood transfusions to treat blood loss depend not only on the patient and surgery characteristics but also on the hospital transfusion practices,
Wu, Wen-Chih, Trivedi, Amal, Friedmann, Peter D, Henderson, William G, Smith, Tracy S, Poses, Roy M, Uttley, Georgette, Vezeridis, Michael, Eaton, Charles B, Mor, Vincent   +9 more
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Delayed Surgical Resection Reduces Intraoperative Blood Loss for Embolized Meningiomas

Neurosurgery, 2002
Abstract OBJECTIVE Embolization before surgical resection of tumors has been demonstrated to reduce intraoperative blood loss, but the optimal time that should elapse between embolization and tumor resection has not been established.
Mitchel S. Berger, Jay Y. Chun, Randall T. Higashida, Michael W. McDermott, Kathleen R. Lamborn, Charles B. Wilson   +5 more
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Blood loss at the time of first-trimester surgical abortion in anticoagulated women

Contraception, 2011
The objective of this study was to compare blood loss resulting from surgical termination of pregnancy up to 12 weeks of gestation between women receiving anticoagulation therapy and healthy controls.Women using heparin, low-molecular-weight heparin or warfarin requesting surgical abortion were enrolled and prospectively matched with nonanticoagulated ...
Mark D. Nichols, Alison Edelman, Michelle M. Isley, Bliss Kaneshiro, Jeffrey T. Jensen, Paula H. Bednarek   +5 more
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Effect of sodium nitroprusside on postoperative blood loss in the cardiac surgical patient

Critical Care Medicine, 1981
Sodium nitroprusside (SNP) is known to inhibit platelet aggregation and has been implicated in postoperative hemorrhagic complications. Because it is a useful agent for treating postoperative hypertension and low cardiac output in the cardiac surgical patient, the authors retrospectively reviewed the course of 53 patients undergoing open heart ...
Laman A. Gray, Aaron E. Lucas, Norman Snow   +2 more
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Effect of Anesthetics on Surgical Blood Loss

International Anesthesiology Clinics, 1974
Werner Dietzel, Walter H. Massion
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The effect of neuraxial blocks on surgical blood loss and blood transfusion requirements: a meta-analysis

Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, 2006
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of neuraxial blocks on surgical blood losses and on the number of patients requiring blood transfusion.A search of the American National Library of Medicine's PubMed up to November 12, 2004, was performed. Twenty-four studies could be kept for analysis.Regional anesthesia reduced the number of transfused
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BLOOD-LOSS IN GENERAL SURGICAL PATIENTS

The Lancet, 1963
A.J.S. Gardiner, H.A.F. Dudley
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BLOOD LOSS DURING SURGICAL OPERATIONS

Anesthesiology, 1951
Colonel Clinton S. Lyter, John J. Bonica
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ANESTHETIC EFFECTS ON SURGICAL BLOOD LOSS

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1964
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THE RELATION OF COAGULATION FACTOR DEFECTS TO SURGICAL BLOOD LOSS*

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1964
J. L. Koppel, John H. Olwin
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