Enhanced Recovery Protocol Reduces Transfusion Requirements and Hospital Stay in Patients Undergoing an Elective Arthroplasty Procedure

Table 3

Transfusion.

	Traditional protocol ()	Enhanced protocol ()	value
Procedure ( (%))
THR	33 (63.5%)	16 (66.7%)	0.008
TKR	19 (36.5%)	8 (33.3%)	0.029
Hemoglobin (g/L)
Preop.	118.3 13.0	125.7 12.7	0.957
Postop.	78.3 8.3	89.9 14.1	0.021
Discharge	100.0 7.4	106.0 11.5	0.125
Units (mean)	2.14 0.6	2.15 0.6	0.772
Anticoagulant ()
Aspirin/clopidogrel	4 (8.2%)	4 (14.8%)	0.366
Warfarin	10 (20.4%)	6 (22.2%)	0.952

Note: this table only shows data of the patients who received a blood transfusion in our cohort. Less patients were transfused in the ER group (). There was no statistical difference between the other values in this table (Chi-square test).