Publications by authors named "Bernard Lassale"
The electronic prescription of Labile Blood Products was recommended in a 1997 directive, to ensure transfusion safety in healthcare services. Following multiple institutional reminders by the Haemovigilance Unit of the Marseille Public Hospitals (APHM), the board of directors decided to set up a project for electronic transfusion records. Here we present the issues arising from this computerisation and the impact of this change of practice on the APHM and the Etablissement Français du Sang PACA-Corse (EFS PACA-Corsica; French Blood Institute Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur-Corsica).
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- The French National Authority for Health (HAS) has released new guidelines for patient blood management (PBM) during surgeries, focusing on three key areas: optimizing red blood cell count, minimizing blood loss, and managing anemia tolerance.
- Preoperative recommendations include identifying anemia and iron deficiency early, especially for surgeries with a higher risk of bleeding.
- Intraoperative strategies involve using tranexamic acid and certain surgical techniques to control bleeding, while postoperative guidance emphasizes reducing blood sampling and monitoring for anemia to determine if treatments like intravenous iron are needed.
Background: Traumatic hemorrhage guidelines include point-of-care viscoelastic tests as a standard of care. Quantra (Hemosonics) is a device based on sonic estimation of elasticity via resonance (SEER) sonorheometry to assess whole blood clot formation.
Objectives: Our study aimed to assess the ability of an early SEER evaluation to detect blood coagulation test abnormalities in trauma patients.
Objectives: Low-viscosity bone cement impregnated with gentamicin is frequently used to fix femoral prostheses. Three cardiac arrests occured successively during cementoplasty oh hip replacements, leading to the death of two patients. The objective of this study is to describe the actions undertaken to establish a potential link between the use of the bone cement and the occurrence of these serious adverse events (SAE).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Blood products use has increased in France between 2000 and 2011. To understand the reasons for this increase, data about transfused patients and transfusion practices needed to be updated.
Study Design And Methods: A nationwide cross-sectional survey was performed with health care establishments.