In this retrospective cohort study, survivors received one platelet transfusion for every 7.7 units of blood transfused whereas nonsurvivors received only one platelet transfusion for every 11.9 units of blood transfused (P = 0.03).
Children included in our study were transfused according to a restrictive strategy, which recommends transfusion for stable non-cyanotic PICU patients only if their Hb level drops below 70g/LL.
Downloading was like a blood transfusion for the singles market.
Then he had a plasma transfusion for an unrelated condition, which seemed to have a spectacular effect.
The chart also misstated estimates, from the journal Transfusion, for the rates of blood donations in Los Angeles with Chagas antibodies.
There was nothing to save the liver, of course, but Dr. Singh decided to give Porter a blood transfusion for the anemia, even though the chief resident said it was a waste.
By Janet Flanner The New Yorker, May 29 , 1926 P. 42Elsie Janis and Josephine Baker are effecting the arterial transfusion for Paris that the Muscovites and now Senorita Meller, at much greater expense, have afforded New York.
The mayor of Toledo, Mike Bell, described Chrysler's announcement as "the equivalent of a blood transfusion" for this heavily industrial city along the Michigan border.
She scheduled the transfusion for 4 a.m, which meant the patient had to be woken at 3 30 a.m. to take the medications required before a transfusion.
In Ian McEwan's novel "The Children Act," a judge must decide whether to insist upon transfusion for a seventeen-year-old Jehovah's Witness who has leukemia and who cannot receive two critical drugs without also accepting donor blood, according to his doctors.
As a result, Coolmore Stud's principal trainer has been able to perform something of a transfusion for the reputation of the Gold Cup, highlight of Ladies' Day at Royal Ascot.
