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The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 27, 493-499, Copyright © 1979 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Routine use of autotransfusion following cardiac surgery: experience in 700 patients

HV Schaff, J Hauer, TJ Gardner, JS Donahoo, L Watkins Jr, VL Gott and RK Brawley

An autotransfusion technique has been developed for collection and reinfusion of shed mediastinal blood. This system has been routinely applied in the postoperative management of 592 consecutive adult and 108 pediatric cardiac surgical patients. Two hundred seventy-one adult patients (46%) and thirty-six pediatric patients (33%) actually received autologous blood. Autotransfusion volume ranged from 50 to 21,350 ml per patient. In 1976 at our institution, homologous transfusion requirements averaged 8.4 +/- 0.7 units per adult patient. During 1978, with the routine use of postoperative autotransfusion, bank blood transfusions were lowered to 4.2 +/- 0.3 units per patient (p less than 0.001). In contrast to perioperative autotransfusion techniques, collection and reinfusion of shed mediastinal blood is particularly useful for intravascular volume replacement in patients with serious postoperative bleeding.

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