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Does very-short-term perioperative intravenous iron administration reduce allogeneic blood transfusion rates and length of hospital stay in patients undergoing major lower limb orthopedic surgery?
Does very-short-term perioperative intravenous iron administration reduce allogeneic blood transfusion rates and length of hospital stay in patients undergoing major lower limb orthopedic surgery?
Perioperative IV iron administration in major orthopedic surgery is associated with reduced blood transfusion rates and hospital stay length.
May support very-short-term perioperative IV iron in major orthopedic surgery to cut transfusions and stay; extends Level 1 meta-analytic evidence without safety signals.
Despite known limitations of pooled observational analyses, these results suggest that very-short-term perioperative administration of IV iron, with or without rHuEPO, in major lower limb orthopedic procedures is associated with reduced ABT rates and LHS, without increasing postoperative morbidity or mortality.
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