A novel predictive model of intraoperative blood loss in patients undergoing elective lumbar surgery for degenerative pathologies

Intraoperative blood loss (IOBL) is unavoidable during surgery, however high IOBL is associated with increased morbidity and increased risk for requiring allogenic blood transfusion, itself associated with poorer outcomes.

Source: The Spine Journal - June 26, 2020 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Zach Pennington, Jeff Ehresman, Camilo A. Molina, Andrew Schilling, James Feghali, Sakibul Huq, Ravi Medikonda, A. Karim Ahmed, Ethan Cottrill, Daniel Lubelski, Steven M. Frank, Daniel M. Sciubba Tags: Clinical Study Source Type: research