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Old 03-09-2004, 09:58 AM
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Another reason for prompt surgery
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Originally Posted by Editors
A technique of arresting bleeding by surgical repair before blood levels have fallen to extremely low levels. The mortality rate when surgery is delayed for greater than 24 hours is near 75%, but if surgery is performed within 24 hours, mortality drops to 20%
Prompt surgery is also used when the surgical patient isn't bleeding but blood counts are dropping and:

* There isn't enough time to build blood counts using recombinant drugs
* Blood Transfusion is not an option
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