Search results for "Transfusions"
Over one-third of surgical inpatients experience adverse events, study suggests
Nearly two in five patients who underwent surgery at one of 11 hospitals in Massachusetts in 2018 experienced adverse events, 60% of which were considered potentially preventable.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/11/20/over-one-third-of-surgical-inpatients-experience-adverse-events-study-suggests.htm
20 Nov 2024
Mortality rates not affected by reductions in inpatient transfusions for moderate anemia
An increase in the prevalence of moderate anemia at hospital discharge from 2010 to 2014 was associated with an increase in the percentage of patients who were still anemic six months after discharge.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/12/19/3.htm
19 Dec 2018
Hospitalists tackle trauma
A geriatric trauma service staffed by hospitalists filled a gap in care for older patients who had been injured.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/11/06/hospitalists-tackle-trauma.htm
6 Nov 2024
No association seen between red blood cell transfusion, mortality in sepsis
Receiving a transfusion was associated with higher risk of ICU-acquired infection and severe hypoxemia among the study cohort of French ICU patients with sepsis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/09/20/2.htm
20 Sep 2017
New guideline calls for restrictive transfusion protocols in critically ill patients
The American College of Chest Physicians' guideline on red blood cell transfusion recommends using a hemoglobin level threshold of 7 to 8 g/dL for most critically ill patients based on evidence of reduced adverse events.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/10/02/new-guideline-calls-for-restrictive-transfusion-protocols-in-critically-ill-patients.htm
2 Oct 2024
Restrictive transfusion thresholds associated with worse outcomes in MI plus anemia
In hospitalized patients with myocardial infarction (MI) and anemia, risk for death or repeat MI at 30 days was higher with hemoglobin thresholds for red blood cell transfusion below 8 g/dL than higher thresholds, but the results were imprecise, a recent analysis found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/10/02/restrictive-transfusion-thresholds-associated-with-worse-outcomes-in-mi-plus-anemia.htm
2 Oct 2024
Clinicians can use lower hemoglobin threshold for transfusion after hip fracture
A lower hemoglobin threshold for blood transfusion after hip fracture surgery yielded similar outcomes as a more liberal threshold in older patients at high risk of cardiac disease, a new study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/12/21/2.htm
21 Dec 2011
October 2008
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/10/
Mortality of patients with cancer and septic shock slightly lower with liberal transfusions
The results went in the opposite direction of the study's initial hypothesis, are counter to existing guidelines, and should be considered of limited external generalizability, the study authors cautioned.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/03/08/1.htm
8 Mar 2017
November 22, 2023
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https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/11/22/