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.
Department of Plastic Surgery and Burn Unit, Tokyo Medical University, Japan. r2-imai@tokyo-med.ac.jp
Ryutaro
R
Imai
Hajime
H
Matsumura
Ryuji
R
Uchida
Katsueki
K
Watanabe
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