Might the aphorism “There is no indication in medicine for a pint of blood” lie behind some of the residual morbidity and mortality of surgery?

The First Joint Symposium of the National and International Neurotrauma Societies 2002

“…Estonia) with use of the Moscow scale of a coma and mark estimation of a condition of the patients (Shakhnovich A. R.. 1986. Mamadaliev A.M. 1987. 1988 175 patients were subjected to surgical treatment.…”