surgical blood management
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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.Segen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
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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