title: Reply: To PMID 25440265.
authors.affiliation: Department of Intensive Care and Thorax Centre, Medisch Spectrum Twente, Haaksbergerstraat 55, Enschede, 7513 ER, the Netherlands. Electronic address: j.vermeijden@mst.nl.
authors.forename: Wytze J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Vermeijden
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Adrianus J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: de Vries
mesh_terms: D001803:Blood Transfusion / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D057725:Operative Blood Salvage / Q000295:instrumentation*