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A reply from the Editor
Author(s) -
Sameh Ibrahim Sersar
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1975.tb00934.x
Subject(s) - citation , medicine , library science , information retrieval , computer science
the word ‘moderate’ when advocating plasma expanders to replace brisk moderate blood loss. You should surely have gone on to say that accidents involving gross soft tissue and bone damage need massive controlled blood transfusion in order to survive. We have, in this hospital, lately given 30 packs of blood to a patient following major trauma; the next day her haemaglobin was 10.1 gm/ml blood. We have, in the past, related these haemoglobin estimations after massive blood transfusions to the red cell mass by isotope estimations and have found that they are equivalent. This also calls into question the validity of Valtis & Kennedy’s1 views on the ability of the haemoglobin of stored citrated red cells to transfer oxygen in the first 24 hours after transfusion. It may not do so fully in experimental conditions but clinically the effect is not noticeable.