Identifying patients for blood conservation strategies.
This retrospective study nicely demonstrates that the use of a simple algorithm taking into account the type of operation and the preoperative hemoglobin concentration can be effective in identifying patients […]
Perioperative blood salvage as an alternative to predonating blood for primary total knee and hip arthroplasty.
This retrospective study shows again that intra- and postoperative blood salvage can minimize allogeneic transfusions. For the recent discussion about the use of unwashed drainage blood the paper is remarkable […]