Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Excessive use of preoperative blood type and antibody screening: A retrospective observational study conducted in a hospital in Norway
Authors' conclusion
Most surgeries had a very low incidence of transfusion. Despite this, type-and-screen tests were widely used.
Study context
- Population
- Patients undergoing elective or emergency surgery in a district general hospital in Norway, January 2015 to September 2020
- Participants
- 68.892 surgeries
- Outcome
- Blood transfusion rates by surgical procedure and value of preoperative type-and-screen
Methodological detailssingle-centre
- Single-centre
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Surgeries with preoperative type-and-screen
36.134
52.0%
Surgeries with perioperative transfusion
3.517
5.1%
Surgeries with intraoperative transfusion
1.2%
n = 850
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Excessive use of preoperative blood type and antibody screening: A retrospective observational study conducted in a hospital in Norway. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. Published 9 July 2024. doi:10.
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