Risks
In cases where a significant amount of blood is lost, the unwillingness to transfuse a patient could lead to ex-sanguination and death. A dose of tranexamic acid plus using new cheap clamps can alleviate much of this scenario in trauma situations.
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“There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)
“The amount of it is, if a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)