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Trends in Blood Utilization
Author(s) -
King John W.,
Senhauser Donald A.
Publication year - 1962
Publication title -
transfusion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.045
H-Index - 132
eISSN - 1537-2995
pISSN - 0041-1132
DOI - 10.1111/j.1537-2995.1962.tb00254.x
Subject(s) - medicine , blood bank , blood units , population , blood transfusion , unit (ring theory) , emergency medicine , pediatrics , surgery , mathematics , environmental health , mathematics education
Data collected from the records of the blood bank at the Cleveland Clinic Hospital show that there has been a steady decrease in the number of patients receiving single‐unit transfusions. Of 1,151 patients transfused in 1948, 55.3 per cent received a single‐unit of blood and only 1.5 per cent received more than 10 units. In 1960 there were 1,761 patients transfused. Only 30.1 per cent received a single‐unit of blood and 15.0 per cent received more than ten units. In 1948, the average number of units per patient was 2.3. This average rose to 4.9 units in 1960. These figures are for a hospital population which is made up of both adults and children. When a correction is made to take this into consideration the figure for adults in 1960 becomes 23 per cent.