title: Autotransfusion of unwashed mediastinal shed blood fails to decrease banked blood requirements in patients undergoing aortocoronary bypass surgery.
abstract: Infusion of unwashed mediastinal shed blood (MSB) is one technique advocated for decreasing use of donor blood in cardiac surgery patients. A commercially available system was prospectively evaluated in 96 consecutive patients. The control group was comprised of 78 consecutive patients. All underwent elective aortocoronary bypass surgery. Student's t-test, chi-square analysis, multivariate analysis, and Fisher's exact test were used where appropriate. There was no decrease in the amount of banked blood required or percentage of patients who received transfusions in the MSB autotransfusion group.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Menorah Medical Center, Kansas City, Missouri.
authors.forename: S R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Roberts
authors.forename: G L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Early
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hannah
authors.forename: H L
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: McDonald
mesh_terms: D001771:Blood Banks / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016063:Blood Loss, Surgical; D001803:Blood Transfusion / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D001804:Blood Transfusion, Autologous / Q000379:methods*; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008482:Mediastinum; D008875:Middle Aged; D011446:Prospective Studies