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Blood Transfusion Policy

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Transplantation

Part of the book series: New Clinical Applications Nephrology ((NCNG,volume 9))

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Abstract

Transfusion of blood into patients awaiting renal transplantation did not require policy decisions during the early phase of the history of transplantation in the 1960s. Instead, blood transfusion was a clinical requirement for the successful dialysis of uraemic patients. Blood transfusion in the late 1980s and the 1990s has, by contrast, become a less frequently mandated therapy with the advent of efficient low-volume dialysers, reduced blood loss, alternative blood volume expanders and, finally, with erythropoietin. The hazards of blood transfusion have also, during those 20 years, become better appreciated. Every renal physician must therefore now have a policy on Mood transfusion, particularly for those patients who are awaiting either a cadaver or a living related kidney transplant. The span of 20 years of research and clinical experience has provided an enormous literature from which it is possible to find reference to the therapeutic advantage of almost any policy on blood transfusion. In this chapter, I will attempt to pick my way through that literature to highlight some of the evidence used to support the various current policies on blood transfusion.

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Chapman, J.R. (1989). Blood Transfusion Policy. In: Catto, G.R.D. (eds) Transplantation. New Clinical Applications Nephrology, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0855-0_1

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