Surgical management of patients with severe anaemia due to acute blood loss: a case for withholding perioperative blood transfusion.

Twenty one consecutive patients who had an average packed cell volume (PCV) of 16.2% (range 13-25) due to acute blood loss were treated surgically without perioperative blood transfusion. All the surgical procedures were carried out under intravenous ketamine hydrochloride.

Intussusception: is floating caecum a causative factor? Analysis of 10 cases.

Ten consecutive cases of intussusceptions treated by the authors at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH) in a five year period are analysed. The median age of occurrence was nine months; average 5.2 years; range: one month to 25 years.