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Transfusion medicine · Aug 2013
Comparative Study Clinical TrialAnaemia and transfusion in nonagenarians undergoing emergency, non-traumatic surgery: a prospective observational study.
To characterise transfusion and determine its main predictors in nonagenarians undergoing non-elective, non-traumatic surgery. Simultaneously, we compared nonagenarians to a similar, but younger sample, as far as the transfusional policy is concerned. ⋯ The independent transfusion predictors in nonagenarians should be taken into account for cross-matching. Transfusional policy being similar between nonagenarians and third-aged patients; the differences in thresholds were due to the differences in the populations.