intraoperative hemodilution
intraoperative hemodilution
Transfusion medicine A form of perioperative autologous blood transfusion, in which 1-2 units of blood are withdrawn from the Pt before surgery and replaced with crystalloid; the blood is stored at room temperature in the OR, thereby eliminating need to formally collect, test, and store blood. Cf Autologous blood transfusion, Intraoperative blood salvage. McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Some manage
intraoperative hemodilution using ultrafiltration during and later in the post-operative period to "reduce" the use of autologous blood,
Blood conservation has already been vastly studied in CPB research, which includes preoperative autologous preservation,
intraoperative hemodilution, and autologous transfusion (11,12).
Synthetic plasma substitutes are given mainly at times when serum electrophoresis is rarely indicated, e.g., during emergency fluid resuscitation or for
intraoperative hemodilution (4).
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