title: [The transfusion and blood transfusion in pediatric patients with palatoplasty]
abstract: OBJECTIVE: To study whether the pediatric patients with palatoplasty needs blood transfusion and the rational combination of transfusion during operation,in order to provide a basis for the management of clinical anesthesia and postoperative recovery in children.METHODS:20 subjects without blood transfusion were selected,the combination of transfusion during the operation was 5% glucose solution,sodium lactate ringers solution,gelofusine.The intraoperative and postoperative circulation, hemoglobulin, hematocrit were compared with the preoperative data.RESULTS:Both the intraoperative and the postoperative circulation of all subjects were steady, having no significant difference from the data base(P>0.05), the values of hemoglobulin and hematocrit descended,but were in the normal limit(P>0.05).CONCLUSION: During palatoplasty in pediatric patients, if transfusion was apporpriate, steady circulation can be substained without boold transfusion,which saved the blood, and avoided the side effects of blood transfusion.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Second Medical University. Shanghai 200011,China.
authors.forename: H P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Y S
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Zhu