Search Tag: anaemia

2025 29 Oct

At #LIVES2025, Nicole Juffermans, Professor of Translational Intensive Care Medicine at the University of Amsterdam Faculty of Medicine, provided an update on ESICM transfusion guidelines.   While transition guidelines from 2020 and 2021 provided recommendations for transfusion practices, the perioperative setting has remained largely withou1Read more

2025 27 May

The optimal threshold for initiating red blood cell transfusions in hospitalised patients and those undergoing surgery remains a topic of active debate. At Euroanaesthesia 2025, experts compared transfusion strategies and examined which patients stand to benefit from restrictive versus liberal approaches.   Ecaterina Scarlatescu, Assistant P1Read more

2025 24 Jan

Researchers at Emory University have developed an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) model that accurately predicts the need for blood transfusions in non-traumatic ICU patients. Published in Health Data Science , the study tackles longstanding challenges in forecasting transfusion requirements across diverse patient populations with varying m1Read more

2024 19 Jun

  Severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) can cause lasting cognitive, motor, and emotional issues. Despite advances in emergency care and neurosurgery, the long-term effects of TBI remain challenging for patients, caregivers, and healthcare providers.   Managing TBI focuses on preventing secondary brain injuries, which can develop hours to days1Read more

2018 06 Jun

The motivation for implementing Patient Blood Management is based on the finding of anaemia, especially in the operative setting, representing a risk factor for increased odds of in-hospital mortality as well as additional complications. All too frequently, patients already have insufficient blood volume when presenting for surgery.  Durin1Read more

2018 14 Mar

One-third of all patients with heart failure (HF) have anaemia, and its presence is associated with more symptoms, increased rates of hospitalisation, and increased mortality. A major factor that leads to anaemia in HF is inadequate erythropoietin production resulting from renal failure. Erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) have been proven to1Read more

2016 28 Jun

Guidance on how to implement patient blood management (PBM) in a hospital is provided in an article just published in Transfusion Medicine Reviews . Corresponding author Prof. Dr. Patrick Meybohm (pictured), from the Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, G1Read more

2016 16 Feb

Professor Kai Zacharowski , Director of the Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Therapy at Frankfurt University Hospital has been honoured with the 2015 Humanitarian Award from the Patient Safety Movement Foundation , for his outstanding contribution to reducing the number of preventable patient deaths. Zacharowski and his team 1Read more

2015 30 Apr

Results from evaluation study of Proxima miniature in-line analyser demonstrate excellent agreement with bench top blood gas analyser Sphere Medical, innovator in critical care monitoring and diagnostics equipment, announced that the results of a clinical study evaluating its new Proxima miniature in-line blood gas analyser have been published1Read more

2015 24 Apr

A new technique of drawing blood from a patient using a modified intra-arterial (IA) line can reduce blood wastage significantly, according to a team of nurses from the intensive care unit (ICU) at Alexandra Hospital in Singapore. The modification adds a three-way tap and an additional syringe to the existing IA line kit. “The additional syringe 1Read more

2015 06 Mar

Sphere Medical, innovator in critical care monitoring and diagnostics equipment, will launch its groundbreaking in-line patient dedicated arterial blood gas analyser in Germany, Netherlands and Belgium at ISICEM 2015. The advanced Proxima System uniquely delivers true point-of-care testing (POCT) by enabling critical care staff to obtain frequent l1Read more

2015 02 Mar

According to an article published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, laboratory testing among patients undergoing cardiac surgery can lead to excessive bloodletting and can increase the risk of developing hospital-acquired anaemia and the need for blood transfusion. Previous research already shows that patients who receive blood transfusions1Read more

2014 12 Sep

According to the Ferric CarboxymaltOse evaluatioN on perFormance in patients with IRon deficiency in coMbination with chronic heart failure (CONFIRM) study, presented at the recent European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress in Barcelona, treating symptomatic heart failure in patients with iron deficiency using intravenous ferric carboxymaltose 1Read more