Editing Iron deficiency (section)

===Blood transfusion===
[[Blood transfusion]] is sometimes used to treat iron deficiency with hemodynamic instability.<ref name="AABBfive">{{Citation |author1 = American Association of Blood Banks |author1-link = American Association of Blood Banks |date = 24 April 2014 |title = Five Things Physicians and Patients Should Question |publisher = American Association of Blood Banks |work = [[Choosing Wisely]]: an initiative of the [[ABIM Foundation]] |url = http://www.choosingwisely.org/doctor-patient-lists/american-association-of-blood-banks/ |access-date = 25 July 2014 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140924075027/http://www.choosingwisely.org/doctor-patient-lists/american-association-of-blood-banks/ |archive-date = 24 September 2014 |url-status = dead }}, which cites
* {{cite book|author1=AABB|title=Guidelines for Patient Blood Management and Blood|date=2011|isbn=978-1-56395-333-0|url=http://marketplace.aabb.org/EbusPPROD/Default.aspx?TabID=55&productId=1845|access-date=28 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141015211139/http://marketplace.aabb.org/EbusPPROD/Default.aspx?TabID=55&productId=1845|archive-date=15 October 2014|url-status=dead}}
* {{cite journal | vauthors = Lin DM, Lin ES, Tran MH | title = Efficacy and safety of erythropoietin and intravenous iron in perioperative blood management: a systematic review | journal = Transfusion Medicine Reviews | volume = 27 | issue = 4 | pages = 221–34 | date = October 2013 | pmid = 24135037 | doi = 10.1016/j.tmrv.2013.09.001 }}</ref> Sometimes transfusions are considered for people who have chronic iron deficiency or who will soon go to surgery, but even if such people have low hemoglobin, they should be given oral treatment or intravenous iron.<ref name="AABBfive"/>

;Intravenous iron therapy for non-anemic, iron-deficient adults
Current evidence is limited to base any recommendations that intravenous iron therapy is beneficial for treating non-anemic, iron-deficient adults.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Miles LF, Litton E, Imberger G, Story D | title = Intravenous iron therapy for non-anaemic, iron-deficient adults | journal = The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews | volume = 2019 | pages = CD013084 | date = December 2019 | issue = 12 | pmid = 31860749 | pmc = 6924972 | doi = 10.1002/14651858.cd013084.pub2 }}</ref> Further research in this area is needed as current body of evidence is very low quality.