What is really dangerous: anaemia or transfusion?

A Shander, M Javidroozi, S Ozawa… - British journal of …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
… Similarly, in our case series of patients with severe anaemia who could not be treated with …
Yet, several lines of evidence support the clinically detrimental effects of anaemia (even when …

Anaemia and red blood cell transfusion in the critically ill patient

SA McLellan, DBL McClelland, TS Walsh - Blood reviews, 2003 - Elsevier
… There are a number of studies investigating the effects of anaemia in surgical patients with
ischaemic heart disease or at high risk for it. In a case control study, continuous ambulatory …

A systematic review of pre‐operative anaemia and blood transfusion in patients with fractured hips

LJ Potter, B Doleman, IK Moppett - Anaesthesia, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
… We systematically reviewed the observational associations of anaemia with outcomes and
the effects of interventions to increase haemoglobin concentrations following hip fracture in …

Large-scale UK audit of blood transfusion requirements and anaemia in patients receiving cytotoxic chemotherapy

PJ Barrett-Lee, NP Bailey, MER O'Brien… - British journal of …, 2000 - nature.com
… the effects of blood transfusion on patients undergoing … effects of the anaemia itself, or its
causes or other confounding factors with the unwanted effects of allogeneic blood transfusion (…

Effect of a patient blood management programme on preoperative anaemia, transfusion rate, and outcome after primary hip or knee arthroplasty: a quality …

A Kotze, LA Carter, AJ Scally - British journal of anaesthesia, 2012 - academic.oup.com
… Nadir Hb (as determined by our database method) was the last pre-transfusion Hb in all
12 transfused patients in the post-implementation group. Hospital records indicate that …

The effects of anaemia and transfusion on patients with traumatic brain injury: a review

S Travers, S Martin, NS Litofsky - Brain Injury, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
anaemia and benefits of correction of anaemia by transfusion… for RBC transfusion in patients
with TBI and anaemia, the … of anaemia and benefits of correction of anaemia by transfusion. …

Impact of preoperative anaemia and blood transfusion on postoperative outcomes in gynaecological surgery

T Richards, KM Musallam, J Nassif, G Ghazeeri… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
… To establish whether the effects of preoperative anaemia on … for perioperative transfusions,
we also compared the effecttransfusions than patients without preoperative anaemia (9.2…

Blood transfusion for treating malarial anaemia

MM Meremikwu, HJ Smith… - Cochrane Database …, 1996 - cochranelibrary.com
… This review evaluates the effects of routine blood transfusion for severe anaemia on death
… the effect of routine blood transfusion in patients with malaria and severe anaemia on death …

Clinical consequences of anemia and red cell transfusion in the critically ill

PC Hébert, BJ McDonald… - Critical care clinics, 2004 - criticalcare.theclinics.com
… (With hemoglobin concentrations < 80 g/L, nearly all patients received a transfusion which
did not allow investigators to draw conclusions about the effect of transfusion at these lower …

The impact of anaemia on outcome in cancer

H Clarke, CJ Pallister - Clinical & Laboratory Haematology, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
… the ability to correct the negative effect of anaemia on outcome by the use of repeated blood
… % of patients were transfused. Predictive factors for anaemia requiring transfusion included …