Predeposit Autologous Blood Donation: a survey of patient attitudes.
Attitudes to autologous blood donation have been surveyed in a group of 38 postoperative bariatric patients. Only two patients (5%) declined to participate. Twenty-eight of 38 ( 70%) successfully predeposited autologous blood. Twenty-five of 28 donors (90%) had done so at the suggestion of their surgeon. Concern about contracting AIDS was the motivating factor in the majority of patients (21 patients = 55%). Lack of infectious complications in general was cited by an additional four (11%). All respondents would donate autologous blood in the future, and would recommend the procedure to others who were about to undergo elective surgery. There was an increase from 29% to 50% who stated that, following their autologous donation experience, they would consider being homologous volunteer blood donors in the future.
Greenstein
RJ
Departments of Surgery, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine CUNY, New York, Bronx VA Medical Center and New York Blood Center, New York, NY, 10468, USA.
Oropello
JM
Picker
SD
Halpern
N
Uehlinger
JM