CONTROLLED HYPOTENSION TO MINIMIZE BLOOD LOSS OF ANAEMIC JEHOVAH’S WITNESS PATIENT UNDERGOING TOTAL HIP AND SHOULDER REPLACEMENT
- 1 August 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in British Journal of Anaesthesia
- Vol. 54 (8) , 895-898
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bja/54.8.895
Abstract
A Jehovah''s Witness with disabling rheumatoid arthritis and a normocytic, normochromic anemia underwent on separate occasions a staged total hip and shoulder replacement. Controlled hypotension with therapeutic doses of sodium nitroprusside was used to minimize blood loss, and hemodilution with crystalloid fluids was used to maintain normal cardiac output.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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