title: Blood conservation in pediatric anesthesia.
abstract: This review focuses on perioperative blood conservation techniques and the role of transfusion triggers and algorithms, preoperative autologous donation, acute normovolemic hemodilution, intraoperative blood salvage, deliberate hypotension, and preoperative recombinant human erythropoietin in avoiding allogeneic blood transfusion in pediatric patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University School of Medicine, 3200 Erwin Road, P.O. Box 3094, Suite 3425 DN, Durham, NC 27710, USA. Craig.Weldon@duke.edu
authors.forename: B Craig
authors.initials: BC
authors.lastname: Weldon
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia; D016063:Blood Loss, Surgical / Q000517:prevention & control; D001803:Blood Transfusion; D001804:Blood Transfusion, Autologous; D002648:Child; D004921:Erythropoietin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006438:Hemodilution; D006801:Humans; D011994:Recombinant Proteins
chemical_list: D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D004921:Erythropoietin