Total Joint Replacement and Blood Loss: What is the Best Equation?

Overview

Journal Int Orthop

Specialty Orthopedics

Date 2013 Feb 7

PMID 23385607

Citations 42

Authors

Emmanuel Gibon

Jean-Pierre Courpied

Moussa Hamadouche

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Abstract

With the population aging, total joint replacements which are an effective method to restore patient's mobility are an increasing necessity. However, such operations are known to entail serious blood loss, which may have dramatic consequences in patients with chronic diseases or when the prosthesis is revised, a situation where the blood loss is even higher. Therefore, formulas to better estimate the blood loss are available. These formulas may also be used for clinical studies to compare blood loss between different joint replacement techniques. The aim of this review is to provide a clear understanding of the formulas and to help physicians to further improve their blood loss estimation. Moreover, surgeons will then be able to choose the most accurate and user-friendly formula for more comparable data between clinical studies.

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