Meeting
Abstract Number: 133
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Multiple professional societies recommend red blood cell transfusions for hospitalized patients based on the presence of symptoms of anemia, like fatigue. These recommendations endorse the idea that the severity of anemia symptoms are due to a patient’s nadir or reduced hemoglobin (Hb) concentration, and that correcting the Hb concentration with a transfusion will improve […]