A restrictive use of both autologous donation and recombinant human erythropoietin is an efficient policy for primary total hip or knee arthroplasty.
Finally a paper which tries to tell us when not to use these expensive modalities. Predonation and erythropoetin are essential tools in the reduction of allogeneic transfusion but their precise […]
An algorithm to reduce allogenic red blood cell transfusions for major orthopedic surgery.
The recommended measures to reduce the use of blood transfusions are certainly right and one can recommend to follow the proposals. However, the excellent results of small trials investigated by […]
Erythropoietin to treat head and neck cancer patients with anaemia undergoing radiotherapy: randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.
This study by Henke et al. is certainly provocative. It reports a poor disease free and overall survival in head and neck cancer patients receiving locoregional radiation therapy. What might […]