[HSF] More Bad News About Trasylol

[Ben Bidstrup]

>Ben,
>   I'm pretty simple minded, but if heavily bleeding patients require  blood,
>they are going to require a lot of blood transfusions.  They are  also more
>likely to be injured from sustained hypoperfusion.  They are  going to be more
>likely to die from multisystem organ failure (lungs, liver,  kidneys).  The
>increases mortality and the increases transfusion  requirement may 
>be true, true/
>unrelated.  It doesn't matter if the  bleeding was during a CABG gone bad or
>an acute dissection.
>Hal

I agree with all you say.
The studies to which I and Prasanna referred though looked at CABG 
patients only.
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Ben Bidstrup FRACS FRCSEd FEBCTS
Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon