Six male and three female patients previously iron deficient after a partial gastrectomy were investigated using a whole body counter to measure their percentage (59)Fe retention. No significant difference in iron loss between postgastrectomy patients and controls was found in the majority of subjects over a study which lasted from 175 to 225 days. The detection of increased free iron loss requ...

BACKGROUND Laboratory tests can be an important source of blood loss in hospitals, especially for newborns and patients in intensive care. The aim of this study was to quantify blood loss for laboratory diagnostic tests in a large number of patients in a teaching hospital. METHODS We estimated blood loss by multiplying the number and volumes of sampling tubes collected from 2654 adult inpatie...

Dog 1 developed ventricular asystole and apnoea thus followed a cardiac death. In the remaining 5 dogs apnoea preceded cardiac standstill. The blood gas values in all 6 animals made it unlikely that failure of the respiratory centre occurred because of primary pulmonary pathology. In animals 5, 8 and 9, cardiac output and related haemodynamic data suggest that apnoea resulted from inadequate bl...

background&aim;:blood loss reducing approaches improve surgery outcomes through making appropriate operation field and reducing transfusion needing . in this study two blood loss reducing techniques compare with together. method & material:in a randomized clinical trial study 60 patients candidate for elective femoral shaft operation were included in two groups.the first group induced hypotensi...