Anemia and postoperative rehabilitation.
Challenging review that discusses optimal hemoglobin level in regard to postoperative rehabilitation, and therefore indirectly questions restrictive hemoglobin thresholds for transfusion. – Volker Kretschmer
Tag: HEMOGLOBIN
Blood substitute and erythropoietin therapy in a severely injured Jehovah’s witness.
Our comments were published in a letter to the Editor (see Hardy JF, Belisle S, Van der Linden P. Combined blood substitute and eryth-ropoietin therapy in a severely injured Jehovah’s […]
Oxygen transport dynamics of acellular hemoglobin solutions in an isovolemic hemodilution model in swine.
It does not come as a surprise that hemoglobin solutions improve oxygen delivery and consumption in severely anemic swine. However, changes in P-50 do not appear to modify oxygen dynamics […]
A double-blind study to evaluate the safety of recombinant human hemoglobin in surgical patients during general anesthesia.
The authors evaluated the safety profile of escalating doses of rHb1.1 in patients undergoing surgery under general anesthesia. The adverse effects observed (and the authors’ conclusions) are those that one […]
Prospective RBC phenotype matching in a stroke-prevention trial in sickle cell anemia: a multicenter transfusion trial.
For a transfusionist from West/North Europe, the results are predictable and the conclusion expectable. In Germany, the prospective RBC phenotype matching in sickle cell anemia and thalassemia, and even in […]