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,
Vijay Sharma,
MaheshChandra 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 trauma , orthopedic surgery , trauma center , schedule , center (category theory) , trauma care , emergency medicine , medical emergency , general surgery , surgery , retrospective cohort study , chemistry , crystallography , operating system , computer science
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.
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