Four leading medical specialty societies released a new clinical practice guideline today that includes recommendations for reducing blood loss during heart surgery and improving patient outcomes. The ...

Removing 10% of a patient's blood before major liver surgery and giving it back afterwards reduced transfusions by half, according to a large clinical trial published in The Lancet Gastroenterology & ...

Blood transfusions are far closer to a transplant than you think. Discover how new hospital programs change surgical care.

An earlier blood transfusion- done when hemoglobin levels were higher - after major general or vascular surgery among people with heart disease was associated with a lower risk of some complications ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Outcomes from early vs. restrictive transfusion strategies after general or vascular surgery were similar. The ...

When hospitals were randomly assigned to treat patients undergoing higher-risk non-cardiac surgery with tranexamic acid (TXA) or a placebo, patients who received TXA needed significantly fewer blood ...

Kenichi Tanaka, M.D., is professor and chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. OKLAHOMA CITY – A University of Oklahoma study published Sept. 3 in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . AI may identify risk of blood loss, transfusions and urgent care after orthopedic surgery. The algorithm used ...

Change in clinical practice would have clear benefits for patients undergoing major bowel surgery, according to analysis conducted by researchers from UCL and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. The ...

When Irv Shapiro found out he needed surgery to fix a ruptured heart valve, one of the first questions he asked his doctor was whether he should donate his own blood. Subscribe to read this story ...