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Article: Strategy Can Minimize Blood Loss During Burn Surgery.
- Article from:
- Blood Weekly
- Article date:
- February 22, 2001
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2001 FEB 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --
by Michael Greer, staff medical writer -- Blood transfusion requirements can be profoundly reduced for patients undergoing surgery for severe burn trauma, with no impact on outcome, researchers in Canada say.
"Significant blood loss continues to plague early tangential excision of the burn wound," R. Cartotto and colleagues at Sunnybrook and Women's College in Ontario wrote in the Journal of Trauma - Injury Infection and Critical Care. "Although various techniques to reduce intraoperative blood loss have been described, there is an absence of uniformity and consistency in their application."
Cartotto ...