title: The potential of preoperative autologous blood donation to reduce intraoperative homologous blood transfusions in a municipal hospital.
abstract: The possibility of introducing autologous blood donation as a standard procedure in elective surgery is investigated, taking as an example a typical tertiary care municipal hospital. Homologous blood transfusions were necessary in 808 of a total of 10,128 cases. In 109 out of 311 cases, which amounts to 35% of all cases with elective surgery and homologous blood transfusion, autologous blood transfusion would retrospectively have been possible, saving a total of 327 blood units.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Darmstadt Municipal Hospital.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Hoffmann
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Götz
mesh_terms: D001804:Blood Transfusion, Autologous / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005860:Germany, West; D006773:Hospitals, Municipal; D006801:Humans; D011300:Preoperative Care; D012189:Retrospective Studies