Transfusion medicine service policies for recombinant factor VIIa administration.
The increasing success reported in the use of rFVIIa to control severe bleeding in surgery and trauma in hemophilia and non-hemophilia patients has made it necessary to formulate protocols and […]
Perfluorochemical ”red blood cell substitutes”: the continued search for an indication. [Editorial]
The author criticizes, quite rightly and not without reason, the study by Spahn et al. on a number of issues. However, he recognizes that, at the end of the day, […]
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 […]
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 […]