Present state of preoperative autologous blood component sampling in this hospital.

Revised guidelines on preoperative autologous blood donation.

advertising." When the problem is so serious and the benefit of banning promotion so clear we are inevitably left to wonder what it is that stops Mrs Bottomley from acting. Natural civil service inertia, a libertarian distaste for advertising bans, and some economic anxiety may have marginal importance, but direct political pressure from the tobacco industry and those who benefit from advertisi...

Ten years of preoperative autologous blood donation in accra.

SUMMARY BACKGROUND Preoperative autologous blood donation (PABD) is utilized to circumvent the use of allogenic blood for various reasons. OBJECTIVE To describe the distribution in terms of demographic characteristic, trends in participation and result of screening test of the PABD programme of the Accra Area Blood Center from 1993-2003. DESIGN AND SETTING Retrospective descriptive study of...

The rise and fall of preoperative autologous blood donation.

Preoperative Autologous Blood Donation a Confessors Point Of View

This contribution was part of a public pro and con discussion during the 4th CAT symposium in Nottwil (Switzerland) and will focus predominantly on the pro arguments for preoperative autologous blood donation (PABD). A major advantage of PABD is the avoidance of the immunological problems associated with allogeneic transfusions. These can result in the delay of later transfusions and unavailabi...

The cost effectiveness of preoperative autologous blood donations.

BACKGROUND Since the recognition that human immunodeficiency virus is transmissible by blood transfusion there has been increasing public and professional support for autologous blood donations before elective surgery. Autologous blood donation is, however, a more expensive process than the donation of allogeneic blood by community volunteers. Furthermore, there have been recent improvements in...