
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. |
Specialty: | Clinical Laboratory General Surgery Anesthesiology Emergency Medicine Critical Care |
Objective: | severity, prognosis, stage, selection, dosage calculations |
ICD-10: | D46, D55-D59, D60-D64, Z51.3 |
Description: | A patient with a hemoglobinopathy, aplastic anemia, myelodysplastic syndrome or other chronic anemia may require regular transfusions. The transfusion requirement for the patient can be calculated based on laboratory testing and transfusion-related factors. The authors are from Arthus Amtssygehus in Denmark. |
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