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Anæmia and Surgery: A Retrospective Clinical Study
Author(s) -
Rawstron R. E.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1970.tb05389.x
Subject(s) - medicine , surgery , retrospective cohort study , surgical procedures
A study has been made comparing the surgical performances of 145 anæmic patients who had hæmoglobin levels below 10 gm/100 ml of blood with the surgical performances of 412 routine surgical cases. While there appeared to be an apparent increase in cardiac arrests or deaths during surgery or in the early postoperative period in the anæmic cases, it is doubtful whether this is significant. Other surgical or postoperative complications did not appear to occur more frequently in the anæmic cases than in the controls, nor did the complications in the anæmic patients require treatment not given to patients in the control series.