Open AccessReviewing the blood ordering schedule for elective orthopedic surgeries at a level one trauma care center
Author(s) -
Arulselvi Subramanian,
Kanchana Rangarajan,
Sudeep Kumar,
Kamran Farooque,
Sharma Vp,
Mahesh Chandra Misra
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of emergencies, trauma and shock
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.313
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 0974-519X
pISSN - 0974-2700
DOI - 10.4103/0974-2700.66521
Subject(s) - medicine , orthopedic surgery , blood transfusion , elective surgery , blood units , surgery , blood loss , trauma center , retrospective cohort study , emergency medicine
Patients undergoing elective orthopedic surgeries often incur excess blood loss necessitating transfusion. The preoperative placement of blood requests frequently overshoots the actual need resulting in unnecessary crossmatching.