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W Russell

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Blood transfusion practices in surgery: an approach to intrahospital analysis.

This study presents a two-year experience with the use of methods for the intrahospital analysis of surgical blood transfusion practices. Statistical and graphic methods were used to classify 21 types of operations (comprising 2,261 surgical procedures) by patterns of blood requests and usage. Surgical procedures were separated into three groups based on the frequency of transfusion. The results show that for many procedures careful attention to preoperative diagnoses can be very useful in predicting the amount of blood needed for a given surgical procedure. Methods described in this paper could be very helpful in reducing excess labor and preventing the unnecessary blood wastage which can result from improper ordering of blood for surgical procedures.

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Luteolysis induced in pigtail monkeys (Macaca nemestrina) with prostaglandin f 2 alpha, ICI 80996 and ICI 81008.

Non-pregnant pigtail monkeys (M. nemestrina) were given ICI 80996 subcutaneously and ICI 81008 and PGF2alpha subcutaneously or intravaginally, once daily on days 20-30 inclusive, or two or three times on days 24 or 26 only. Doses of 50 mug/kg of ICI 80996, 100 mug/kg of ICI 81008 and approx. 1 mg/kg of PGF2alpha were used. In the majority of monkeys treated subcutaneously a rapid fall in circulating progesterone concentrations and earlier than normal menstrual bleeding occurred. When given per vaginam, ICI 81008 was as effective as when given subcutaneously, though PGF2alpha was less effective intravaginally than by the subcutaneous route.

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