Predictors of success of immediate tracheal extubation in living donor liver transplantation recipients.

12 Hoffmeister and colleagues found a highly significant difference in the amount of intraoperative transfused blood products between the extubated and non-extubated groups. 1 Zeyneloglu et al., when comparing extubated with non-extubated patients, found that those extubated had lower transfusion requirements. 13 Blood transfusion requirements were lower in our study, which may be attributed to the routine use of cell salvage, lower triggers for transfusion and different surgical techniques.

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