Sentences with phrase «needed for transfusions»

Storage life is limited and the quantities needed for transfusions fluctuate constantly.

newborn anemia, respiratory distress leading to brain damage and / or death (rare, yes, but it happens), inadequate blood supply resulting in a need for transfusion, possible heart defects resulting from problems closing off the hole in the heart valves following birth.

For example, it may reduce the need for transfusions and may improve the supply of oxygen to the brain.

A C - section maybe more maybe safer for mom but typically if you have twins and if you're planning a vaginal delivery for instance and the vaginal delivery doesn't go quite right then you can actually have an increased risk of blood lost and so if you have a plan C - section, there can be a decrease in the blood lost or really the decrease in the risk of what we call the postpartum hemorrhage and decrease the need for transfusion.

Both have risks and benefits including bleeding, need for transfusion, post procedure fever and infection, need for antibiotics, risk for injury to surrounding organs like bowel, bladder, urethra, vessels, anal sphincter, with need for suturing or need for reoperation.

It can also decrease the need for transfusions and hospital admissions.

A new class of synthetic platelet - like particles could augment natural blood clotting for the emergency treatment of traumatic injuries — and potentially offer doctors a new option for curbing surgical bleeding and addressing certain blood clotting disorders without the need for transfusions of natural platelets.

«These particles could potentially be a way to obviate the need for a transfusion.

It is conceivable, he says, that younger men might have different diseases triggering their need for a transfusion than older men, which might make them more vulnerable to problems incorporating women's red blood cells.

This is a vital step towards a future in which all the blood we need for transfusions can be made in the lab, so that blood donors are no longer essential.

Pioneering Gene Therapy by UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland Researchers Demonstrates Gene Therapy Can Eliminate Life - Long Need for Transfusions in Patients with Incurable Blood Disorder

Not exact matches

Because of the need for constant blood transfusions, about 90 percent of severe hemophiliacs have been exposed to the AIDS virus.

At birth, my brother needed 2 blood transfusions for he was born yellowish looking and had what I think they called, yellow jaundice».

After 12 days in intensive care I was moved to a ward and still needed lots of treatment including physiotherapy to learn to breathe unassisted and walk again, dressing changes for the wound on my tummy, dialysis treatments and blood transfusions.

We were happy that things were looking positive, but at 5 pm I was told that she was not to have any more breastfeeds for the time being because she might need another transfusion and she needed to spend as much time as possible under the lamps to keep the jaundice under control.

as I'd required an IV just in case things went pear - shaped (low B12 and low iron and was told that I'd have needed a transfusion if I'd lost more than 500mL), needed a little boost of pitocin for that one, and my babies tend to be Persistent Occiput Posterior Position deliveries.

According to the article's research «In pre-term infants, delaying clamping the cord for at least 30 seconds reduced incidences of intraventricular hemorrhage, late on - set sepsis, anemia, and decreased the need for blood transfusions.»

Especially in pre-term instants, research has shown it can decrease the need for blood transfusions and possible brain injury.

For low - risk women having their first baby at home, the study calculated their risk of being admitted to intensive care or needing a large blood transfusion to be small - and similar to women giving birth in hospital.

It is very important especially in preterm infants, research has shown an increased need for blood transfusions and possible brain injuries.

Phototherapy is usually effective, but if a baby develops a severe case of jaundice, or his bilirubin levels continue to rise despite phototherapy treatment, he may need to be admitted to the intensive care unit for a blood transfusion called an «exchange transfusion.»

Over 57 % (129) were not aware of the possible need for blood transfusion during pregnancy.

We also know that each donation can be crucial for patients undergoing surgery or patients who need transfusions,» said Senator Diaz.

Also, researchers could carefully select which blood types to culture with each batch of stem cells, creating stockpiles of needed blood products for people with extremely rare blood types whose blood cell makeup makes it challenging to find good blood matches for transfusions because they would reject most other types of blood.

In the past, several small studies have shown that compared with general anesthesia, regional anesthesia reduces intraoperative blood loss and the need for blood transfusions.

They found that use of tranexamic acid was significantly associated with an up to 69 % reduction in the need for blood transfusions and was not associated with an increased risk of complications, including serious blood clots and acute kidney failure.

«The system then restored the cleansed blood through a blood vessel near the groin, eliminating the need for a blood transfusion.»

But the researchers believe the particles could also reduce the need for platelet transfusions in patients undergoing chemotherapy or bypass surgery, and in those with certain blood disorders.

Further research is needed, the study states, to identify which children with history of silent strokes are at greatest risk for recurrence so transfusion therapy can be targeted to them.

«Emergency blood transfusions for major trauma need to be more rapid, consistent: Only 2 percent of patients with life - threatening bleeding after serious injury receive optimal blood transfusion therapy in England and Wales, according to research.»

Minimizing the need for blood transfusions can also be vital, especially on the battlefield — U.S. Special Operations Command field - tested surgical plasma knives in 2008.

Only one patient needed a blood transfusion, and there were no strokes, no need for pacemakers, no readmission to the ICU, and no reintubations,» he says.

They suggest that patients undergoing surgery can be informed about PBM, and the steps that can be taken to reduce the need for blood transfusion — and thus avoid Zika transmission and other potential risks of blood transfusion.

That approach, called PBM, seeks to reduce the need for blood transfusion by «consistently and rigorously» following steps to ensure that patients don't have anemia before surgery; to reduce blood loss during surgery; and to use alternatives to transfusion, when possible.

Failure to produce new bone marrow can be caused by disease, trauma, or some cancer treatments, and can lead to a significantly higher risk of infections, and the need for blood transfusions.

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If you are facing surgery as treatment for your cancer, you may need a blood transfusion during the surgery.

Blood donations from friends and family are a great source of encouragement and support for a patient needing transfusions.

In our medical training, we learn that it can lead to stomach ulcers that, in extreme, can result in upper gastrointestinal bleeding, the need for surgery and blood transfusions.

It can pose a problem for those who often need IV medical treatments, such as dialysis patients or hemophiliacs who require blood transfusions.

Studies have found that women who deliver via C - section are more likely to need blood transfusions and be admitted to intensive care units, and are more likely to need C - sections for future pregnancies.

This blood volume reduction increases the need for blood transfusions.

Donny's donation was ear - marked for a special delivery to a veterinarian clinic in Bartlesville to help a dog that had possibly gotten into his owner's medication or mouse poison and urgently needed a fresh whole blood transfusion.

The wide range of transfusion needs might include: combating illness or disease, treating an acute blood volume loss and preventative measures in routine surgeries for dogs with bleeding disorders.

Serious cases can result in hospitalization and even the need for blood transfusions.

«It will affect dogs throughout the country that need emergency or preventative blood product transfusions for a medical reason, if a severe shortage became a reality, if Hemopet was forced to close,» Dodds told The Dodo.

We have readily available blood and blood products for transfusion needs, antivenin for snake envenomation.

Risk factors significantly associated with death prior to suture removal included clinical signs of bloating for greater than 6 hours before seeing the vet, partial stomach removal combined with spleen removal, need for blood transfusion, low blood pressure at any time during hospitalization, sepsis (blood infection, and peritonitis (infection of the abdominal membranes).

Following major injuries or internal bleeding, fibrinolysis can become unregulated and excessive, leading to more bleeding with a need for massive blood transfusions and increased risk of death.

Dogs do not have to be blood typed for the first transfusion, but do need blood typing for later transfusions.