Blood Loss and Massive Transfusion in Patients Undergoing Major Oncological Surgery: What Do We Know?

Table 1

Type of surgery, blood loss, and blood transfusion.

Type of surgery	Range of blood loss (cc)	Range of PRBCs units
Spine tumors [38–43]	400–12,100	2–10
Sacral tumors [44–46]	3,000–37,000	0–43
Hemipelvectomy [47–50]	400–12,100	0–134
Total pelvic exenterations [47–50]	900–9,500	0–18
Nephrectomy with IVC embolectomy [37, 51–55]	200−16,000	0−91
Liver and multivisceral resection [12, 56–62]	200–>5,000	0–44
Extrapleural pneumonectomies [63–65]	900–65,00	0–18

Table 1 illustrates ranges of blood losses and PRBCs of transfused units reported in the literature.