An algorithm to reduce allogenic red blood cell transfusions for major orthopedic surgery.
The recommended measures to reduce the use of blood transfusions are certainly right and one can recommend to follow the proposals. However, the excellent results of small trials investigated by […]
Fever and autologous blood retransfusion after total knee arthroplasty: a prospective study of 40 autotransfusion events in 21 patients.
The authors report a postoperative increase in body temperature by 2C within 12 h and 1C within 2 h after autotransfusion in all of 21 patients receiving about 1000 mL […]
Detection and removal of fat particles from postoperative salvaged blood in orthopedic surgery.
The authors describe a new and interesting method for the detection of fat droplets in blood. The topic itself and the problem of fat in salvaged orthopedic wound blood is […]