1. Anesthesia for Patients with Anemia
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Mazyar Javidroozi, Gregg Lobel, and Aryeh Shander
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Blood transfusion ,Blood management ,Anemia ,medicine.medical_treatment ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,Perioperative Care ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Anesthesia ,Blood Transfusion ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Hematinic ,Intensive care medicine ,Modalities ,Anemia, Iron-Deficiency ,business.industry ,General Medicine ,Iron deficiency ,medicine.disease ,Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine ,Hemostasis ,Hematinics ,Hemoglobin ,business - Abstract
Anemia is a common and often ignored condition in surgical patients. Anemia is usually multifactorial and iron deficiency and inflammation are commonly involved. An exacerbating factor in surgical patients is iatrogenic blood loss. Anemia has been repeatedly shown to be an independent predictor of worse outcomes. Patient blood management (PBM) provides a multimodality framework for prevention and management of anemia and related risk factors. The key strategies in PBM include support of hematopoiesis and improving hemoglobin level, optimizing coagulation and hemostasis, use of interdisciplinary blood conservation modalities, and patient-centered decision making throughout the course of care.
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- 2016
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