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Increasing Cost of Blood Transfusions Creates Demand for Bloodless Surgery
By Norman A. Smyke Jr, Md · 13 years ago
The cost of blood transfusions is on the rise and the result is an increase in the number of blood management programs at hospitals around the U.S. Blood management and the field of bloodless medicine ...
Blood Management for Treatment of Hemophilia and other Bleeding Disorders
By Norman A. Smyke Jr, Md · 13 years ago
Bleeding disorders are serious conditions that affect a large number of people around the world. Hemophilia alone affects nearly 20,000 people in the United States and more than 400 children are born each year with ...
Bloodless Surgery for Faster C Section Recovery
By Norman A. Smyke Jr, Md · 13 years ago
A pregnancy can be a truly wonderful experience for a woman. From personal birth plans to hand selected doctors, a mom to be wants to be sure everything goes according to her plan when the ...
Bloodless Surgery for Hip and Knee Replacements
By Norman A. Smyke Jr, Md · 13 years ago
A total hip or knee replacement is an operation to replace worn or damaged parts of a hip or knee joint. The surfaces of the diseased joint are removed and replaced with a mechanical, artificial ...
History and Benefits of Bloodless Heart Surgery
By Norman A. Smyke Jr, Md · 13 years ago
Bloodless surgery is quickly becoming a common procedure in major hospitals and healthcare centers around the world. Methods for blood management and conservation have become considerably more efficient and effective with the advent of new ...
Top 10 Blood Transfusion Risks Patients Should be Aware Of
By Norman A. Smyke Jr, Md · 13 years ago
Blood transfusions are relatively common medical procedures that are performed millions of times each year in U.S. hospitals and around the world. A blood transfusion might be necessary when a patient has received a major ...
Three Things Every Patient Should Know Before a Bloodless Surgery
By Norman A. Smyke Jr, Md · 13 years ago
As a patient, every decision you make about an operation or procedure is a big one. Although having a planned surgery provides additional options unavailable to patients receiving emergency surgeries, these choices can present difficult ...
Blood Donation Facts - is the US Blood Supply in Jeopardy?
By Norman A. Smyke Jr, Md · 13 years ago
In recent decades, many operations that once required a blood transfusion using donated blood are now being performed without the use of blood products. In many of these cases, the patients receiving the operation voluntarily ...
What Healthcare Professionals are Saying about Bloodless Surgery
By Norman A. Smyke Jr, Md · 13 years ago
While some of the basic ideas and concepts constituting what is known today as bloodless medicine have been around for centuries, the idea of a set of medical and surgical techniques aimed specifically at eliminating ...
What is Bloodless Surgery?
By Norman A. Smyke Jr, Md · 13 years ago
Bloodless surgery is a common reference to a number of different techniques that make it possible for a patient to undergo a complex surgery without the need for a blood transfusion. The term can be ...