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Questions surrounding the risks and costs associated with blood transfusion have led to a reevaluation of clinical transfusion practices during the past 15 years.¹ Guidelines for blood transfusion have been issued by several organizations, including a consensus conference of the National Institutes of Health,² the American College of Physicians,³ the American Society of Anesthesiology,⁴ and the Canadian Medical Association.⁵ The guidelines recommend that among patients without known risk factors, the threshold for transfusion should be a hemoglobin level in the range of 6.0 to 8.0 g per deciliter. They also indicate that patients with hemoglobin levels higher than 10.0 g . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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