What Doctors Don't Tell YouDoctors have found a way of taking more blood from a patient awaiting surgery so that a donor's blood need not be given. The autologous transfusion (the receiving of your own blood) has become mor ...
The following are tried and tested alternatives to blood transfusion during various procedures. If you or a loved one is due to undergo surgery or give birth, and you don't wish to have a blood t ...
A story published without fanfare in a recent issue of the British Medical Journal (see facing story, this page) revealed the astonishing statistic that one third of all people who have had trans ...
The blood transfusion is a standard procedure in our hospitals, and many of us regard it as our social duty to give blood. Around 2.5 million units of blood are collected in the UK every year, and around half is used during elective and emergency...
Drugs given during surgery to reduce blood loss and so lessen the need for transfusion may be largely ineffective and actually do harm. ...
About one-third of all people who had transfusions in Britain were given the wrong blood, an informal questionnaire has discovered. Six people died from the error and a further 12 became ill. The ...
Adult hepatitis C may have its roots in the routine blood transfusions given to premature or underweight babies in the 1960s. ...
Blood transfusions after cancer surgery may hamper patients' survival prospects, according to research from the Netherlands. ...
Premature babies are at great risk of suffering brain injury, so they are routinely given transfusions as a preventative. But new research has discovered that the procedure is worthless. ...
