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“It’s a precious gift, not to waste”: is routine cross matching necessary in orthopedics surgery? Retrospective study of 699 patients in 9 different procedures

BACKGROUND: Orthopedic surgeries are usually associated with excessive blood loss which leads surgeons to overestimate need for blood transfusions and over ordering of blood. The cross matched blood, when not used, leads to the wastage of blood bank resources in terms of time, money and manpower. Th...

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Autores principales: Hasan, Obada, Khan, Eraj Khurshid, Ali, Moiz, Sheikh, Sadaf, Fatima, Anam, Rashid, Haroon U.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6195984/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30342517
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-018-3613-9