A global study led by researchers at The University of Western Australia has addressed the rising use of intravenous iron therapy in anaemic patients during major surgery and found there is little benefit.
A global study led by researchers at The University of Western Australia has addressed the rising use of intravenous iron therapy in anaemic patients during major surgery and found there is little benefit.
The clinical study is the first to rigorously test something that has become routine practice in a randomised, controlled trial.
Up to half of patients undergoing major surgery have anaemia and over the last decade, hospitals around the world have given intravenous iron to these patients in advance of their operation.
This strategy is based on global recommendations and guidelines, but had never been formally tested in a clinical trial.
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