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Sunday, November 16, 2014

Perioperative blood transfusion in gyn oncology surgery



abstract
  
Highlights
13.8% of gynecologic surgical patients received a perioperative blood transfusion.
Transfusion is independently associated with increased perioperative morbidity.
Transfusion increases risk of perioperative mortality and surgical site infections.

Objective

To use a large-scale multi-institutional dataset to quantify the prevalence of packed red blood cell transfusions and examine the associations between transfusion and perioperative outcomes in ovarian cancer surgery.

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