Transfusion
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Randomized Controlled Trial
The effects of liberal versus restrictive transfusion thresholds on ambulation after hip fracture surgery.
Perioperative anemia leads to increased morbidity and mortality and potentially inhibits rehabilitation after hip fracture surgery. As such, the optimum transfusion threshold after hip fracture surgery is unknown. ⋯ Although a liberal transfusion trigger did not result in increased ambulation scores, restrictive transfusion thresholds should be treated with caution in elderly high-risk hip fracture patients, until their safety has been proved in larger randomized studies.