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Red Blood Cell Transfusions Prove To Have An Adverse Effect On Heart Surgery Patients

December 3, 2007 by Kendra James, RN  
Filed under Diseases & Conditions

Red Blood Cell Transfusions Prove To Have An Adverse Effect On Heart Surgery Patients

Man oh man! I feel like there is always some sort of research pointing to some other type of research that has already been accepted and totally disagrees with what we have been doing for years. Do you follow? hahah.
It seems that now researchers are suggesting that transfusions among bypass surgery patients are not as favorable as we thought…
The research found patients who received a red blood cell transfusion experienced a three-fold increase in complications arising from lack of oxygen to key organs — such as in a heart attack or stroke. This is a finding at odds with the …read more


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