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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2005;129:1200
© 2005 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letters to the Editor

Hematocrit trial

Richard A. Jonas, MD

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC 20010

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To the Editor:

We read with interest the report by Ootaki and associates,1 as well as the correspondence by Shuhaiber2 in reference to the article by Habib and colleagues.3 Ootaki and coworkers1 applied a transfusion protocol in which blood was not transfused during cardiopulmonary bypass unless hematocrit was less than 15%. They found that patients with a hematocrit of less than 20% had a higher lactate level than patients with a higher hematocrit but imply that this . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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