background: acute normovolemic hemodilution is an available technique to decrease the side effects of allogenic blood transfusion. the aim of this study was to compare acute normovolemic hemodilution with allogenic blood transfusion in adult patients who were scheduled for femoral fracture surgery. methods: in this randomized controlled trial, 50 patients were randomly allocated into two equal ...

Justifications: Perioperative allogeneic blood transfusion can be reduced or even completely avoided by using a set of different strategies: meticulous hemostasis, the use of pharmaceutical agents that assist in the process of coagulation/ fibrinolysis, the use of blood substitutes, induced hypotension, preoperative autologous blood donation, collection and reinfusion of autologous blood during...

To the Editor:—Acute normovolemic hemodilution (ANH) causes a reduction in arterial oxygen content because of reduced hemoglobin concentration. The primary compensatory mechanism during ANH is an increase in cardiac output to maintain systemic oxygen delivery. Therefore, the lower limit of an acceptable hemoglobin concentration is related to how low hemoglobin can be reduced without jeopardizin...

BACKGROUND Several blood conservation strategies have been tried with the purpose of reducing homologons blood transfusion. PATIENTS #ENTITYSTARTX00026; METHODS In a prospective randomized study, the potential benefits of acute normovolemic hemodilution (ANH) with autologous transfusion were investigated as a blood conservation technique in surgical excision of intracranial meningioma. Over a...

UNLABELLED Predonation of autologous blood (PAD) is a standard of care for patients undergoing radical prostatectomy, but recent studies have shown that PAD is not cost-effective. Acute normovolemic hemodilution (ANH) is an alternative autologous blood procurement technique that is much less costly than PAD. We compared the efficacy and costs of ANH alone to ANH combined with PAD. Two hundred-f...

Materials and methods 25 patients were evaluated in our Institution (14 males and 11 females) for curative surgical operations: 8 gallbladders, 5 ventral median incisional hernias, 7 sigmoid diverticulosis, 5 inguinal hernias. Different intraoperative techniques were analyzed: normovolemic acute hemodilution, use of hemo-recovery device and anaesthesia with controlled hypothermia and hypotensio...