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He selected 45 fetuses that required a potentially painful blood transfusion, giving one-third of them an injection of the potent painkiller fentanyl.
If no-one requires a transfusion, giving TXA increases costs by $13,000 (the cost of administering TXA to 1,000 patients).
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Platelet transfusion given in the first three days in the ICU was not associated with increased 30-day mortality.
The propensity score reflected the probability of receiving a red cell transfusion given the individual patient's covariate values.
R is the relative risk of a surgical patient requiring a transfusion given routine administration of TXA (0.61 95%CI: 0.54-0.69) [ 4].
Thus, the probability of receiving a transfusion (given a shortage of blood) becomes: Where m represents mean number of units transfused in the absence of TXA and n is the mean number of units transfused given routine administration of TXA.
It should also be noted that we did not administer erythropoiesis stimulating agents, which might reduce the need for transfusion, given the debate around these agents and recent recommendations [ 11- 13].
For a term infant, placental transfusion gives the infant an additional median of 80-85 mls of blood [ 17- 19], which contributes 23 ml per kilogramme, increasing blood volume at birth by 25%.
It is of note that the recent audit of transfusions given to medical patients has confirmed an increasing haemoglobin increment per unit transfused in patients with lower body weight.
Platelet transfusions given to patients with fever or systemic inflammation are less efficacious.
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