Severe Anemia may occur due to acute haemorrhage, acute haemorrhage,acute haemolysis or dyshemopoeis due to deficiency of iron, folic acid, vitamin B12 ,aplasia of the bone-marrow or cronic diseases like uraemia and hepatic failure.
CLINICAL FEATURES:-
The clinical features of severe anemia are:
1- Cardiac
2-CNS
3-Miscellaneous
TREATMENT-
The correct approach to a patient of anemia is to find out the cause and treat the cause to cure anemia. However,emergency treatment is necessary if there are cardiac or cerebral symptoms.
1- Packed cell transfusion
2- Specific treatment