Restricting post-surgery blood transfusion is safe for some hip patients

Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 17:31 in Health & Medicine

More than half of the older, anemic patients in a New England Journal of Medicine study did not need blood transfusions as they recovered from hip surgery, according to new research co-authored by University of Maryland School of Medicine scientists. The findings could immediately change the way such patients are treated.

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