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intraoperative blood salvage

Intraoperative autologous transfusion Transfusion medicine A procedure in which the blood shed or otherwise lost into an operative field is collected sterilely, washed, filtered and reinfused as a packed unit of RBCs; IAT is suited for 'bloody' heart–eg, aortic aneurysms or CABG or orthopedic surgery–eg, hip arthrodesis, ↓ Pt exposure to multiple donors and may be used with pre-deposit autologous donation, where packed red cells are collected from the Pt before surgery. See Surgical blood management. Cf Autologous transfusion.
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The advantages of intraoperative blood salvage are technical simplicity, low cost and availability (Lemos & Healy 1996).
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Intraoperative blood salvage is a valuable technique for reducing the need for autologous blood donation for elective surgery and for homologous blood in emergency surgery.
Quantitative Microbiologic Study of Blood Salvaged by Intraoperative Membrane Filtration
The panel says other safe alternatives, such as intraoperative blood salvage (collecting blood from a patient during an operation for subsequent use) and hemodilution (removing blood and substituting other fluids to keep blood volume up) are useful in selected cases, while some of the more innovative approaches, including artificial blood, remain experimental.
Bloody dilemma
It also goes into serologic testing, record keeping, releasing unused blood, and intraoperative blood salvage.
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