Perioperative hemodilutional autologous blood transfusion in burn surgery.
It is important to avoid or minimise allogeneic blood transfusion, because of possible alloimmunisation or disease transmission. In burn cases these risks are high, and predonated autologous transfusion is not practical. Perioperative haemodilutional autologous blood transfusion is considered applicable in burn surgery. This study evaluates the effectiveness of the technique in the treatment of burns.
Imai
Ryutaro
R
Department of Plastic Surgery and Burn Unit, Tokyo Medical University, Japan. r2-imai@tokyo-med.ac.jp
Matsumura
Hajime
H
Uchida
Ryuji
R
Watanabe
Katsueki
K
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001804:Blood Transfusion, Autologous / Q000379:methods*; D002056:Burns / Q000601:surgery*; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D005260:Female; D006438:Hemodilution / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019990:Perioperative Care / Q000379:methods; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D065227:Transfusion Reaction; D016896:Treatment Outcome