023 – Stored blood versus fresh salvaged blood
Hi Everyone, Congratulations & kudos Jeremy Hickey who correctly identified that this blood gas was a sample from a unit of stored allogeneic blood, sorry we don’t have any actual […]
Category: Patient Blood Management
018 – Management of the obstetric patient for whom transfusion is not an option
(*Hypothetical Case) You are an obstetrician (or anaesthetist) and you work in a peripheral hospital in a metropolitan city. You are not on call but despite this you get woken […]
013 Intraoperative and intrapartum strategies to decrease blood loss – anaesthesia, coagulation and pharmacology
Hi everyone, This weeks post is part 2 of the 5th in my mini series on patient blood management in obstetrics and gynaecology. We discuss some of the strategies we […]
012 Fibrinogen concentrate in major haemorrhage – interview with Dr Hamish Mace
You phone goes off – you roll over it is 2am – when you pick up it is a theatre nurse calling to ask if you can urgently come to […]
010 Intraoperative and intrapartum surgical / physical / radiological techniques to minimise blood loss
Hi everyone, This weeks post is the 5th in my mini series on patient blood management in obstetrics and gynaecology. We discuss some of the strategies we can use to […]
008 Intravenous iron
Hi Guys, Number 4 in the patient blood management in obstetrics and gynaecology mini tute series. Intravenous iron – a relatively safe and effective treatment that can rapidly correct iron […]
007 Oral Iron
Hi Guys, Number 3 in the patient blood management in obstetrics and gynaecology mini tute series. Nice and short this time! Oral iron the treatment of choice for the vast […]
006 Iron Physiology
Hi again! This is episode two in my mini tutorial series on patient blood management (PBM) in obstetrics and gynaecology. This one is on the basics of iron physiology – […]
005 Patient Blood Management (PBM) in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Gidday, Bonjour, Hi! This is the first episode in my mini series on patient blood management in O&G. Menorrhagia, haemorrhage, PV bleeding, iron deficiency, anaemia – any of this seem […]