Preoperative Anaemia and Associated Postoperative Outcomes in Noncardiac Surgery Patients in Central Region of Ghana

Table 7

Perioperative use of haematinics in the patients.

Parameter	Patients total (n)	Oral iron	Folate	Oral iron + folate	Others
Perioperative	893	74 (8.3%)	29 (3.2%)	38 (4.3%)	40 (4.5%)
Preoperative haematinics
Preoperative anaemia^a	485	28 (5.8%)	7 (1.4%)	9 (1.9%)	14 (2.9%)
No preop. anaemia^a	408	2 (0.5%)	1 (0.2%)	0.0%	2 (0.5%)
Postoperative haematinics
Preoperative anaemia^a	485	47 (9.7%)	26 (5.4%)	39 (8.0%)	23 (4.7%)
No preop. anaemia^a	408	7 (1.7%)	5 (1.2%)	5 (1.2%)	17 (4.2%)

Results are presented as percentages; ^a more than one treatment per patient is possible, that is, some patients received a combination of pre- and/or posthaematinics treatments; others = oral iron and/or folate administered with vitamin B₁₂, erythropoietin, or zinc; no patient received haematinics intraoperatively.