Data complete?
Evaluation appropriate?
Number of risk factors associated with a need for perioperative blood transfusion
Does the patient meet the criteria for a group with very low likelihood of perioperative blood transfusion?
Should the patient be urged to donate autologous blood prior to surgery?
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Purpose: To identify patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty with a very low risk of needing a perioperative blood transfusion.
Specialty: Clinical Laboratory, Surgery, general, Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, Critical Care
Objective: risk factors, severity, prognosis, stage, complications, selection
ICD-10: M15-M19, Z51.3,