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Perioperative cell salvage blood transfusions in endonasal angiofibroma surgery at Groote Schuur Hospital
… approaches for many tumours are often limited by blood loss, exposure and risk to vital anatomical structures; therefore, the standard of care for certain skull base tumours has become endoscopic transnasal resection. Other surgical disciplines often use cell salvage techniques, but review of the …
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Ailments of the Soul: Blood Transfusions and the Treatment of Melancholy in Seventeenth-Century England
The first animal-to-human blood transfusions performed in seventeenth-century England focused on patients suffering from mental diseases such as melancholy. Many physicians diagnosed melancholy as a disease of the body, mind, and soul in which blood played a key role. Philosophy, religion, and …
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Heart rate variability (HRV) as a predictor of anemia in premature infants using Artemis
Premature infants often receive multiple blood transfusions within the first few weeks of life because of their physiological needs. Anemia is a major contributor to the need for transfusions in premature infants, and current detection practices rely on laboratory testing of blood samples. This …
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Developing a validated framework for a Patient Blood Management (PBM) toolkit appropriate for the South African healthcare context
Patient blood management (PBM) is a patient-centred, systematic, evidence-based approach to improve patient outcomes by managing and preserving a patient's own blood while promoting patient safety and empowerment. The historic inappropriate use of risk-associated blood transfusions in treating …
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Preventing Blood Component Administration Errors
… to patients is human error; receiving the wrong blood component or one that is not compatible. A fatality subsequent to a blood transfusion is a devastation one cannot quantify. Blood transfusions are a routinely performed life saving intervention in the inpatient acute care hospital setting. …
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An investigation of blood transfusion practices in a regional obstetric hospital with no on-site blood bank
Background This study aimed to investigate blood transfusion practices in a regional obstetric hospital with no on-site blood bank. Underpinning this research was the argument that principles of evidence-based medicine should apply to blood transfusions in the same way they do to any other clinical …
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Standardized Blood Transfusion Documentation
… satisfaction through the use of a standardized blood administration documentation template. The goal was to reduce the time that nurses spend charting by offering a structured documentation template and to ensure that the procedure is correctly recorded in the patient’s electronic record. The …
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Analyse von Risikofaktoren für das Auftreten von Anastomoseninsuffizienzen nach kolorektalen Resektionen
… body mass index, as well as existing illnesses, blood count, smoking, alcohol, drugs, medication and diagnosis. The surgical-technical factors are localization, access, priority, duration of surgery, antibiotics, suture, the surgeon, complications and blood transfusions. The analysis was done …
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Primary Joint Arthroplasty Surgery: Is the Risk of Major Bleeding Higher in Elderly Patients? A Retrospective Cohort Study
… after MOS, result of a higher frequency of blood transfusions in this group of patients. Standardized protocols for blood transfusion in these patients are still required.
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Use of a tourniquet in lower limb amputations: Evaluating blood loss in peripheral arterial disease patients A systematic review
… including amputation. Tourniquets create a bloodless environment, which is thought to facilitate surgery and reduce time, potential errors and subsequent complications. Objectives: To investigate the effectiveness of using a pneumatic tourniquet as an adjunct in lower limbs amputation in …
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Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B-Induced Acute Lung Injury:Mechanism and Treatment of Disease
… inhalation of a toxic substance, septic shock, blood transfusions and pneumonia. The treatment options are based on supportive care, and the mortality rates fluctuate between 35 and 60%, based on the age of patients. The role of activated T cells and failure in capillaries of the lungs has been …
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Advanced Practice Nurses: Attitudes Towards Caring for AIDS Patients
… towards patients who acquire AIDS through blood transfusions.<br> Conclusions: Although we have been addressing the issue of attitudes towards AIDS patients within the nursing profession for over a decade, we continue to see differing degrees of negativity based on the mode of disease …
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The influence of cisplatin dose variations during concurrent weekly chemo-radiation in stage IIB cervical cancer at Groote Schuur Hospital
… during treatment was 11.6 g/dL (range 8.8-15.5). Blood transfusions before or during chemo-radiation were given in 33% of patients. Two thirds of patients completed five or six cycles of weekly cisplatin. Reasons for fewer than five cycles were: scheduling failure, neutropaenia, and/or renal …
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A description of premature and ex-premature infants admitted to a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit in the first six months of life
… were mechanically ventilated and 48.3% received blood transfusions. Higher revised Paediatric Risk of Mortality (PIM2) score (p = 0.03), inotrope use (p < 0.0001), longer duration of mechanical ventilation (p = 0.03), and cardiac arrest in PICU (p < 0.0001) were associated with mortality on …
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Provision of Blood and Blood Components in the Event Of Emergencies // Осигуряване на кръв и кръвни съставки в случай на бедствени ситуации
Blood transfusions and blood components play an essential role in providing medical care to victims of disasters caused by natural and human factors. Depending on the type of event and the related injuries, a number of victims need sufficient blood components to be provided in a timely manner. In …
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Αντισώματα κατά του κυτταρομεγαλοϊού, τοξοπλάσματος Gondii, έρπητα Ι και ΙΙ, ερυθράς και συνδρόμου επίκτητης ανοσολογικής ανεπάρκειας σε πρωτότοκες και πολύτοκες κατά την εγκυμοσύνη
… age, socioeconomic status, work history, blood transfusions, home animals and history of abortions. The samples from women of group Β were examined for seroconversion. The seroconversion rate for cytomegalovirus antibodies was 18 per cent, for toxoplasma gondii antibodies was 6 per cent, …
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Use of the Non-Pneumatic Anti-Shock Garment (NASG) For Life-Threatening Obstetric Hemorrhage: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Egypt and Nigeria
… interventions to manage bleeding (uterotonics, blood transfusions, hysterectomies). Costs (in 2010 international dollars) included the NASG, training, and clinical interventions. We compared costs and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) across the intervention scenarios. RESULTS: For 1000 …
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Proteins as markers of TSE infection in sheep blood
… and agricultural animals. TSE transmission via blood transfusion has been demonstrated experimentally in rodent, primate and sheep models. Additionally, in humans, four variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (vCJD) cases have been reported which probably resulted from infected blood transfusions. …
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A Survey of Temperatures of Adult Medical and Surgical Patients
… that went to 100 degrees or more. Surgery and blood transfusions seem to be the main therapeutic procedures causing elevations although patients with phlebitis after receiving intravenous fluids and after radiation therapy also exhibited symptoms of fever.</p> <p>It was concluded that …
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A compatibility study of common additives in protein hydrolysate-dextrose solutions for parenteral hyperalimentation
… with attempts at parenteral therapy, especially blood transfusions, with little or no succes. It was not until the early nineteenth century that Thomas Latta, in Scotland, used saline with great success to treat the intractable diarrhea of cholera. He is considered to be the first man to use …
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