Intraoperative autologous transfusions have been used for many years to avoid transmission of infections, especially in vascular surgery, where blood usage is considerable. Several autotransfusion devices exist, but these devices are often associated with negative outcomes such as cost, contamination, and removal of essential blood components (e.g. platelets). Preoperative autologous blood dona...

The restricted use of allogeneic blood transfusions has been accepted throughout the world as important in reducing risk, particularly of the transmission of infectious diseases. In orthopedic surgery reduced use of allogeneic transfusions has been shown to prevent both early and late postoperative infection. In this issue (page 310) Brian Feagan and colleagues describe transfusion practices an...

Methods. We conducted a quality improvement program to examine the effect of a transfusion strategy algorithm in primary knee (TKA) and hip arthroplasty (THA). Our algorithm is presented as a diagram and is based on tolerated and expected blood losses. Patient characteristics, blood loss, transfusions given, autologous blood wastage, and costs were examined during an initial evaluation and afte...

background tennis elbow (te) is a common myotendinosis. it was first described by runge in 1873; different modes of treatment are used in management of te. objectives this study aimed to report the results of autologous blood injection (abi) in the treatment of te. materials and methods a prospective case study was performed to evaluate the results of abi in the management of te. the level of p...

background: malaria is the most important transfusion-transmitted infection (tti) in worldwide after viral hepatitis and human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection. the main objective of the present study was to review and evaluate the transmission of malaria via blood transfusion in iran. methods : a literature search was done without time limitation in the electronic databases as follows: p...

background: reservation of blood leads to blood wastage if the blood is not transfused. therefore, in some centers only blood type and screen are evaluated. in this study, the efficacy of a blood crossmatch-to-transfusion ratio was measured and then compared with the standard levels. methods: this prospective study was conducted during one year in a university hospital. during this period, 398 ...

Exposure of patients to allogeneic blood transfusion can be minimized or avoided by the systematic use of multiple blood conservation techniques. Such strategies exploit appropriate combinations of drugs, technological devices, and surgical/medical techniques. It also demands an interdisciplinary team approach, combining medical, surgical, and other specialists who share a commitment to avoidin...

transfusion of blood products from an infected person with aids, is meant to infect recipient. blood products such as whole blood, red blood cells, platelets, plasma, frozen blood precipitate, factor viii, factor ix, can be infected with hiv. transmissions from blood factors can be seen in plasma from thousands of donors that were collected in a container and were used to treat hemophilia. bloo...

BACKGROUND Transfusion of human blood stored for more than 2 weeks is associated with increased mortality and morbidity. During storage, packed erythrocytes progressively release hemoglobin, which avidly binds nitric oxide. We hypothesized that the nitric oxide mediated hyperemic response after ischemia would be reduced after transfusion of packed erythrocytes stored for 40 days. METHODS AND ...