To continue or discontinue aspirin in the perioperative period: a randomized, controlled clinical trial.
This randomized double-blind study compared perioperative maintenance with the preoperative withdrawal of aspirin 7 days before non-cardiac surgery in high-risk patients. Aspirin maintenance allows a 80% decrease in the relative […]
Survival and length of stay following blood transfusion in octogenarians following cardiac surgery.
Veenith and colleagues from Cambridge, UK, describe perioperative risk factors for all-cause mortality (primary outcome), length of stay in intensive care unit and total hospital stay (secondary outcomes) in 874 […]
Predonation of autologous blood reduces perioperative allogenic transfusion requirement in grown-up patients with congenital heart disease.
This is a small observational single center study (n = 76), but covering 12 years (between May 1995 and November 2006), that shows some excellent results: a significant reduction of […]
Platelet transfusion can be related to liver regeneration after living donor liver transplantation.
This interesting but retrospective study supports the hypothesis that platelet transfusion plays a significant and positive role in liver regeneration after living donor liver transplantation. The authors relate this effect […]
Intraoperative blood salvage and retransfusion from citrate treated wounds is safe and feasible.
In an experimental study, the authors used application of citrate onto the surgical field to prevent clot formation. Neither the effects on hemostasis in the surgical field nor the activation […]