Health & Medicine - Monday, August 10, 2009 4:00 - 0 Comments

Transfusions make matters worse?

“Doctors are simply doing what they were trained to do, (with regard to blood transfusions) but it turns out that their actions are more harmful than helpful in many cases,” says study coauthor Neil Blumberg.

U. ROCHESTER (US)—Blood transfusions should only be used as a last resort, according to a new study that finds they increase the risk of death for hospitalized cardiac patients by nearly five times and double the risk of infection. Continue…