Restrictive blood transfusion - is less really more?

Anaesthesia. 2020 Apr;75(4):433-437. doi: 10.1111/anae.14973. Epub 2020 Jan 8.

Authors

A Shah^{1

2}, S J Stanworth^{1

3}, A B Docherty^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
² Nuffield Department of Anaesthesia, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK.
³ Department of Haematology, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK.
⁴ The Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
⁵ Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Royal Infirmary Edinburgh NHS Lothian, Edinburgh, UK.

PMID: 31916254
DOI: 10.1111/anae.14973

No abstract available

Keywords: guidelines; myocardial infarction; peri-operative risk; transfusion mortality: causes.

Publication types

Editorial
Comment

MeSH terms

Blood Transfusion*
Erythrocyte Transfusion*
Humans
Postoperative Complications

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