In patients eligible for cardiac surgery, the prevalence of anemia ranges from 16% to 54%,
with severe cases (hemoglobin< 10 g. dL À1) affecting 5.5% of individuals. Perioperative …

Anemia is a decrease in red blood cell mass, which leads to a reduction in oxygen delivery
to tissues. The 2003 to 2012 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) …

Objectives To determine if a restrictive transfusion threshold is noninferior to a higher
threshold as measured by a composite outcome of mortality and serious morbidity. Design …

Defining the appropriate indications for the transfusion of allogenic red cells is an area of
intense study. Cardiac surgery utilizes a significant proportion (over 6%) of all red cells …

It has been clearly demonstrated that patients who are anaemic pre-operatively have worse
outcomes after surgery [1]. Although anaemia can be corrected by blood transfusion, which …

Editorial Views hemoglobin concentration decreases below 80 g/l) during cardiovascular
surgery did not increase ischemic events or infections, but was associated with a disturbing …

PREOPERATIVE anemia and perioperative allogeneic erythrocyte (RBC) transfusion have
both been shown to be independently associated with adverse outcome, such as increased …

Correspondence comorbidities. This would be of great importance for the reader as it has
been reported by Musallam et al. 2 that the composite postoperative morbidity at 30 days …

Few subjects inspire the amount of discussion and debate as the appropriate threshold for
blood transfusion in hospitalized patients. Numerous randomized trials comparing liberal …

In a controlled, randomized clinical trial assessing the effect of postoperative transfusion
strategy on the short-term outcomes in the intensive care unit (ICU) high-risk patients …