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Autologous Blood Transfusion

1979; CRC Press; Volume: 10; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3109/10408367909149731

0590-8191

Stephen M. Brzica, Alvaro A. Pineda, Howard F. Taswell, Deborah A. Kuban,

Blood donation and transfusion practices

Autologous blood transfusion is a procedure in which blood is removed from a donor and returned to his circulation at some later time. Autologous transfusion can be performed in three ways: (1) preoperative blood collection, storage, and retransfusion during surgery; (2) immediate preoperative phlebotomy with subsequent artificial hemodilution and later return of the phlebotomized blood; and (3) intraoperative blood salvage and retransfusion. All three methods of autologous transfusion offer a potentially superior method of blood transfusion which eliminates many of the problems and complications associated with the banking and administration of homologous donor blood.