Thursday January 4, 2007
Lasix after pRBC transfusion

It is a common practice to give IV Lasix after pRBC transfusion but there is no real scientific basis for it. As a common sense RBCs cannot come out of pulmonary capillaries. They only cause viscous load (increasing viscosity of intravascular fluid) and giving lasix actually can increase viscous load further and make it worse !!