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Background: Anaemia is prevalent among children in our environment, often necessitating blood transfusions. The knowledge of the common indications for blood transfusion and the required preventive measures is likely to reduce the transfusion rates ...
SO Akodu
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Background: Hypofibrinogenaemia is associated with excessive bleeding after cardiac surgery. Our aim was to compare the efficacy and safety of weight-adjusted vs empiric dosing of fibrinogen replacement in cardiac surgery.
Cian Devine +3 more
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Intra-operative blood salvage in total hip and knee arthroplasty [PDF]
Purpose To review records of 371 patients who underwent total hip or knee arthroplasty (THA or TKA) with intra-operative blood salvage to determine the allogeneic blood transfusion rate and the predictors for allogeneic blood transfusion. Methods Records
Beller, Elaine +3 more
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Effectiveness of blood transfusions and risk factors for mortality in children aged from 1 month to 4 years at the Bon Marche Hospital, Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo [PDF]
Objective To assess the effectiveness of blood transfusions in a hospital of north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Methods Prospective study of children admitted for severe anaemia.
Akech +9 more
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Anaemia and blood transfusion in African children presenting to hospital with severe febrile illness [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Severe anaemia in children is a leading cause of hospital admission and a major cause of mortality in sub-Saharan Africa, yet there are limited published data on blood transfusion in this vulnerable group.
Akech, SO +13 more
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Perioperative transfusion analysis and blood ordering schedule update for total knee arthroplasty
Objective To investigate the perioperative rate of allogeneic red blood cell (RBC) transfusion in patients who underwent total knee arthroplasty (TKA) and its risk factors, and to identify its cross-match to transfusion ratio (C∶T ratio).
Manjiao MA +8 more
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Prion diseases are efficiently transmitted by blood transfusion in sheep [PDF]
The emergence of variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease, following on from the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) epidemic, led to concerns about the potential risk of iatrogenic transmission of disease by blood transfusion and the introduction of costly ...
Andréoletti +43 more
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Paediatric transfusion encompasses a wide range of clinical circumstances including the consideration of maternal antibodies, the changing nature of the transfusion recipient with respect to growth and development, and the management of inherited conditions which if optimally treated in early life may have problems which are delayed or less severe in ...
J, Simpson, S, Kinsey
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Monitoring of the Blood Plasma Redox Potential During Plasma Quarantining (Preliminary Report)
The purpose of the study: to identify significant changes in the electrochemical properties of quarantine-stored blood plasma and of donor blood plasma during its in vitro mixing with quarantined plasma in order to assess the effect of transfusion of ...
I. V. Goroncharovskaya +5 more
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The thorny devil stick insect (Eurycantha calcarata) is a common invertebrate maintained under human care. Blood (hemolymph) transfusions are a widely used therapeutic tool in other species, but investigation in terrestrial arthropods remains scarce ...
Taylor M. Gregory +5 more
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