Saturday, April 27, 2019

Massive blood transfusion strategy

In patients with massive haemorhage with a loss of more than 40% of blood volume - rapid transfusions are given with colloids, crystalloids and packed RBCs.

This causes coagulopathy by diluting the a clotting factors.

Hence, prophylactic infusion of platelets and fresh frozen plasma is done.

Initially, it was given in a ratio of 1:1:4
One part platelet & ffp transfusion to every 4 bags of blood.

It has been renewed now to 1:1:1 ratio

It has caused significant reduction in mortality 40% versus 60%

Thank you!

40% blood loss translates to grade 4 hemorrhagic shock or grade 1 degree of urgency per the urgency grid for obstetric hemorrhage. I removed the grading in the initial part of the post to avoid confusion as different grades mean different severity of shock based on the scale used.

- sakkan

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