Patrick Meybohm: 2 books
Patient Blood Management Case Report No. 2: Patient Blood Management in a Jehova's Witness trauma patient
University Hospital Frankfurt, Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Patients involved in major trauma frequently suffer from severe blood loss and anemia, which can be challenging to treat. Additional issues are presented in the population of Jehovah’s Witness patients, who refuse transfusions of allogenic blood or its components. We established a stable hemodynamic...
Patient Blood Management Case Report No. 1: The importance of preoperative evaluation of hemostasis and anemia
University Hospital Frankfurt, Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
This case report describes the poor outcome of a female patient who underwent elective nephrectomy. Unfortunately, the patient was suffering from undiagnosed preoperative platelet dysfunction and anemia, although blood count and clotting were almost within normal ranges two weeks earlier at the day...