
# Epi 57 - ICU Primary - Bedside Preparation - Albumin, PRBC and Blood Grouping
ICU Primary PrepCast
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Don't Use Albumin to Make the Number 25 Look Like 35 or 40
I think the reality is that you don't get significant tissue edema from a lack of album and until the numbers below 20. So there's probably no real strong trigger to make you dive in before 20. But I do have to say I don't routinely use albumin to make the number 25 look like 35 or 40, as I'm not sure I'm doing the patient any real benefit. There is a cost to the blood system to to make it and produce it even though it's a byproduct of other things we make but it's not without expense. We love nothing more than making the numbers. And that makes us feel good about what we're doing and that's why we
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