• Filter By:
• Specialty
• Source
• Condition
• Cancer
• Infectious Disease
• Drug
• Training
• Management
• Procedure
• Therapy
• Vaccine
• Nutrition
• Country

Transfusion thresholds for guiding red blood cell transfusion
CONCLUSIONS: Transfusion at a restrictive haemoglobin concentration decreased the proportion of people exposed to RBC transfusion by 41% across a broad range of clinical contexts. Across all trials, no evidence suggests that a restrictive transfusion strategy impacted 30-day mortality, mortality at other time points, or morbidity (i.e. cardiac events, myocardial infarction, stroke, pneumonia, thromboembolism, infection) compared with a liberal transfusion strategy. Despite including 17 more randomised trials (and 8846 participants), data remain insufficient to inform the safety of transfusion policies in important and sele...
Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - December 21, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Jeffrey L Carson Simon J Stanworth Jane A Dennis Marialena Trivella Nareg Roubinian Dean A Fergusson Darrell Triulzi Carolyn Dor ée Paul C H ébert Source Type: research

Cardiovascular disease after childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: a cohort study.
CONCLUSIONS: Despite attempts to reduce cardiotoxicity in childhood cancer treatment, CVD risks in ALL survivors treated more recently do not seem to have declined. PMID: 30852834 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Swiss Medical Weekly - February 24, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Hau EM, Caccia JN, Kasteler R, Spycher B, Suter T, Ammann RA, von der Weid NX, Kuehni CE Tags: Swiss Med Wkly Source Type: research