
#105 Sickle Cell: 5 Pearls Segment
Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast
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Transfusions and Single Cell Disease
When do we transfuse in these patients? Routine transfusions are only if the s appear to be symptomatic because of the anemia, or they have a a plastic crisis and their crits are going ing down very quickly. That's such a greek question. Trea and i had the same one. So i asked doctor billin or her thoughts on transfusion and single cell disease,. We avvoidit. The problem is, as do transfuse somebody for a number, you will transfuse them every time they come into the hospital. And that's how you end up with tha patient with a ferret, a five thousand and heart disease and liver disease and thiop
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