Calculating the Blood Transfusion Requirement for a Patient with Chronic, Transfusion-Dependent Anemia

Purpose: To calculate the blood transfusion requirement for a patient who requires chronic blood transfusion therapy.

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Evaluation

Are you evaluating a patient who requires chronic blood transfusions?

Yes

Body weight of the patient

Hematocrit prior to initial transfusion (enter fro 0 to 100)

percent

Hemoglobin prior to initial transfusion

Number of packed RBC units transfused

units of blood transfused

Hemoglobin prior to next transfusion

Number of days between transfusions

days

Results

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Results Interpretation and Description References Next Steps

Data complete?

Evaluation appropriate?

Whole body hematocrit

Plasma volume

Blood volume

Transfusion requirement

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Interpretation and Description

References

Next Steps in Evaluation

Diagnosis

Risk Factors
Other Testing
Criteria For Diagnosis
Severity, Prognosis, Stage
Complications
Differential Diagnosis And Mimics, Red Flags
- Predicting Need for Allogenic Blood Transfusion Following Surgery for Lung Cancer

Therapy

Options
- Transfusion Planning Algorithm of Weber in Surgical Patients with Cancer of the Head and Neck (TPRA Model)
Selection
Dosage Calculations
- Method for Estimating Blood Loss with Severe Trauma
- Estimating Blood Loss from Field Dressings

Monitoring

Complication Detection
- Risk Index of McCluskey et al for Predicting Massive Blood Transfusion Associated with Liver Transplant Surgery

Specialty

Clinical Laboratory
Surgery, general
Anesthesiology
Emergency Medicine
Critical Care

Objective

severity
prognosis
stage
selection
dosage calculations

ICD-10

D46 - Myelodysplastic syndromes
D55-D59 - Haemolytic anaemias
D60-D64 - Aplastic and other anaemias
Z51.3 - Blood transfusion [without reported diagnosis]

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Purpose: To calculate the blood transfusion requirement for a patient who requires chronic blood transfusion therapy.

Specialty: Clinical Laboratory, Surgery, general, Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, Critical Care

Objective: severity, prognosis, stage, selection, dosage calculations

ICD-10: D46, D55-D59, D60-D64, Z51.3,

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