"It's a precious gift, not to waste": is routine cross matching necessary in orthopedics surgery? Retrospective study of 699 patients in 9 different procedures

• Main Authors: Obada Hasan (Author), Eraj Khurshid Khan (Author), Moiz Ali (Author), Sadaf Sheikh (Author), Anam Fatima (Author), Haroon U. Rashid (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Orthopedic surgeries are usually associated with excessive blood loss which leads surgeons to overestimate need for blood transfusions and over ordering of blood. The cross matched blood, when not used, leads to the wastage of blood bank resources in terms of time, money and manp...