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Over the last few years, the telecommunications industry has faced significant changes fueled by the mass market adoption of smartphones. Smartphones have created the need for more data-centric network services by accelerating the introduction of new applications and services. This evolution has helped wireless broadband service mature as a next wave of communication. In particular, due to the migration of Internet use on fixed network to mobile network, the mobile data traffic growth rate has grown beyond network capacity. Overall mobile data traffic in Korea is expected to grow to 152 petabytes (1015 bytes) per month by 2015, a 35-fold increase over 2010 according to KCC(Korea Communications Commission). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Background: The prevalence of anemia is high, especially in obstetrics. There is large evidence, that anemia during pregnancy is associated with increased maternal morbidity and mortality. Anemia and peripartum hemorrhage remain the main causes for transfusion of red blood cells (RBC). Patient Blood Management (PBM) reduces the need for RBC transfusion significantly. The present study retrospectively analyzed the impact and prevalence of anemia and RBC transfusion on pregnant women., Materials and Methods: Data were retrieved from the German Statistical Office on pregnant women who delivered in hospital between January 1 st 2011 and December 31 st 2020. The prevalence of anemia, peripartum hemorrhage, comorbidities, administration of blood products and complications were analyzed., Results: A total of 6,356,046 pregnant women were analyzed of whom 78,257 (1.23%) received RBC transfusion (RBC transfusion group) and 6,277,789 (98.77%) did not receive RBC transfusion (non-RBC transfusion group). In all women analyzed anemia rate was 23.74%. The rates of anemia during pregnancy (70.39 vs 23.15%; p<0.0001), postpartum hemorrhage (41.42 vs 4.35%; p<0.0001), hospital length of stay (127.5 vs 87.08 hours; p<0.0001) and single complications were higher in women with RBC transfusion compared to women without RBC transfusion., Discussion: The prevalence of anemia and the increased risk for RBC transfusion show that there is great potential for effective implementation of PBM in obstetrics. The treatment of anemia during pregnancy and reduction of RBC transfusions will decrease maternal morbidity and mortality.