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administration, Hct and Hb values are practically of equal value, as well as the
symptoms of inadequate oxygenation, together with the ability to compensate the
blood loss, age of patients, and logistic aspects, such as the experience of the hospi-
tal physician, predictability, possible intensity, and duration of bleeding, etc.
Exploration of a “common” or “universal” trigger for prophylactic platelet transfu-
sions has to be continued because there are individual variations in bleeding ten-
dency of patients with similar platelet counts, i.e., critical “individual
thrombocytopenic bleeding threshold”. It has been suggested that the optimal
approach to prophylactic platelet support is to individualize it according to each
patient's platelet count and clinical condition. However, this is only applicable in
the centers with experienced medical staff to handle the orders for PC transfusions.
Medical care should be initiated quickly, in order to avoid the expected sequels and
complications of the basic disease.
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