surgical blood management

surgical blood management

The manner in which blood or volume expanders are used in surgery, with the intent of minimising the risk of infection and immunoreactivity, while reducing or eliminating allogeneic transfusions.

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surgical blood management

Transfusion medicine The manner in which blood or volume expanders are used in surgery, with the intent of minimizing the risk of infection and immunoreactivity, while reducing or eliminating allogeneic transfusions. See Autologous transfusion, Colloids, Crystalloids, Hemodilution, Intraoperative blood salvage, Postoperative reinfusion, Preoperative autologous donation.

Surgical blood management techniques

Intraoperative blood salvage  

Postoperative reinfusion    

Transfusion  

 Allogeneic donation

 Autologous (self) donation

Hemodilution  

 Colloids

 Crystalloids

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