TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grant-Casey, J.
AU  - Madgwick, K
TI  - Assessment of anaemia in elective pre-operative orthopaedic patients
SN  - 00296570
PY  - 2010///
N1  - NMUH Staff Publications; 24
N2  - <span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="line-height: 17.999801635742188px;">The transfusion of components made from human blood carries a small risk to the recipient. </span><span class="highlight" style="line-height: 17.999801635742188px;">Pre-operative</span><span style="line-height: 17.999801635742188px;"> preparation, ensuring that the patient is not anaemic before surgery, is important to ensure that blood is not transfused unnecessarily. This article highlights that </span><span class="highlight" style="line-height: 17.999801635742188px;">pre-operative</span><span style="line-height: 17.999801635742188px;"> </span><span class="highlight" style="line-height: 17.999801635742188px;">anaemia</span><span style="line-height: 17.999801635742188px;"> is often not effectively managed in </span><span class="highlight" style="line-height: 17.999801635742188px;">patients</span><span style="line-height: 17.999801635742188px;"> presenting for </span><span class="highlight" style="line-height: 17.999801635742188px;">elective</span><span style="line-height: 17.999801635742188px;"> total hip replacement surgery, putting them at risk of unnecessary transfusion. A national comparative audit conducted by the authors suggests that there is a role for nurses who manage </span><span class="highlight" style="line-height: 17.999801635742188px;">pre-operative</span><span style="line-height: 17.999801635742188px;"> </span><span class="highlight" style="line-height: 17.999801635742188px;">assessment</span><span style="line-height: 17.999801635742188px;"> clinics to ensure that </span><span class="highlight" style="line-height: 17.999801635742188px;">patients</span><span style="line-height: 17.999801635742188px;"> with </span><span class="highlight" style="line-height: 17.999801635742188px;">anaemia</span><span style="line-height: 17.999801635742188px;"> are managed effectively before surgery. Nurses managing these clinics have an opportunity to decrease the need for peri-operative transfusion. The management of </span><span class="highlight" style="line-height: 17.999801635742188px;">patients</span><span style="line-height: 17.999801635742188px;"> attending </span><span class="highlight" style="line-height: 17.999801635742188px;">pre-operative</span><span style="line-height: 17.999801635742188px;"> </span><span class="highlight" style="line-height: 17.999801635742188px;">assessment</span><span style="line-height: 17.999801635742188px;"> clinics should be reviewed to ensure that mechanisms are in place to allow the identification, investigation and treatment of </span><span class="highlight" style="line-height: 17.999801635742188px;">anaemia</span><span style="line-height: 17.999801635742188px;">.</span></span&gt
UR  - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20865947
UR  - http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=18&sid=68922126-f134-4e2f-b812-7fb4d2e3e991%40sessionmgr4003&hid=4114
ER  -