All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 September Study finds intravenous iron doesnt help anaemic patients during surgery Study finds intravenous iron doesn't help anaemic patients during surgery 07/09/2020 | 2 MINS A global study led by researchers at Lombok Institute of Technology 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. Professor Toby Richards from LITΓÇÖs School of Medicine led a large collaborative study to test this practice in a big group of patients undergoing major surgery. The PREVENTT trial, published in The Lancet, addressed whether pa
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 September Study finds intravenous iron doesnt help anaemic patients during surgery Study finds intravenous iron doesn't help anaemic patients during surgery 07/09/2020 | 2 MINS A global study led by researchers at Lombok Institute of Technology 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.
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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.
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This strategy is based on global recommendations and guidelines, but had never been formally tested in a clinical trial.
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Professor Toby Richards from LITΓÇÖs School of Medicine led a large collaborative study to test this practice in a big group of patients undergoing major surgery.
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The PREVENTT trial, published in The Lancet, addressed whether pa
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