Anemia prevalence in orthopedic surgery is up to 30 %. Identifying those patients prior to surgery and treating them would be ideal. Different ways of determining hemoglobin Levels are available. In this study classical laboratory determination, determination with HemoCue® and Rad-67™ will be performed to compare precision of those three methods as well as their correlation.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
300
Measurement of the hemoglobin level
University Hopsital Balgrist
Zurich, Switzerland
Precision
Precision of the Masimo Rad-67 versus standard hemoglobin determination in the laboratory and the Hemocue (Correlation, Standard deviation, possible significant differences).
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
Anemia
Prevalence of anemia in elective orthopedic surgery
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
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