[HSF] More Bad News About Trasylol

[prasannasimha]

Ah Michael I  had a feeling you will jump in !! Can you give the 
Cleveland clinic quote - (wrt to the 7 % blood transfusion risk) -I 
cannot seem to get hold of it.
Dr Levinson, I still feel pdf files should be allowed. I think that  
copyright laws still allow us too circulate them privately for 
educational prurposes. This is freely done in the critical care list and 
Gas net (the Anesthesiologists list). In fact now many journals allow 
open access after say 6 months to a year after publications.
Prasanna
Michael Firstenberg wrote:
> Hal,
> Since I am always on the other side of your coin.  What about all of 
> the risks of blood transfusions?  There is plenty of data that relates 
> blood product usage to increased risk of adverse outcomes.  How do you 
> respond to the Catfish type that say - "if you had used 
> aprotinin/amicar/etc then my client would not have gotten ......"?
>
> Michael
>
> for my Bentall - give me Amicar.
> for my redo infected Bentall - hmmm, might take the risk......
>
>
> On Sep 30, 2006, at 2:17 PM, Hgrmd at aol.com wrote:
>
>> Prasanna,
>>   We haven't heard from Claudia, our in house hematologist, in  awhile.
>> Perhaps she can comment.  However, my impression is that the  blood 
>> bank, at least
>> in the U.S., is about as safe as it has ever been.  I  agree that new 
>> blood
>> borne diseases may arise in the future, but the risk of  
>> aprotinin-associated
>> ATN is immediate and real.
>> Hal
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