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 ...

background: various adverse effects of homologous blood transfusion detected particularly in open heart surgery, in which it is frequently used, lead researchers to study on autologous blood use and to evaluate the patient’s blood better. due to the complications of homologous blood transfusion, development of techniques that utilize less transfusion has become inevitable. we aimed to evaluate ...

BACKGROUND Preoperative autologous blood donation is commonly used to reduce exposure to allogeneic transfusions among patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery. However, this technique is associated with an overall increase in transfusions (allogeneic or autologous). The authors assessed the impact of transfusion decision-making on the effectiveness of preoperative autologous donation in re...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of intraoperative autologous blood transfusion during laparotomy for hemoperitoneum in ectopic pregnancy and also safety of homologous blood transfusion along with autologous blood transfusion. METHOD Fresh blood, from peritoneal cavity, was collected for autotransfusion in sterile dish, filtered through eight layers ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the practicability of autologous blood donation and transfusion in the practice of obstetrics and gynaecology in our environment. METHOD A prospective study of 1221 obstetric and gynaecological patients to which autologous blood donation and transfusion was carried out at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, Maiduguri over an 8 year period (January, 1998 to Dec...

Autologous blood donation and erythropoietin (EPO) have been shown to be effective in reducing allogeneic blood transfusion, but the cost-effectiveness of these interventions remains unclear. A cost minimization analysis was performed, comparing the total costs of allogeneic blood transfusion strategy and autologous and allogeneic blood transfusion strategy for 161 primary total hip arthroplast...

PURPOSE Although allogeneic blood transfusion is the most common method of transfusion in total knee arthroplasty (TKA), there are reports showing significant decrease in the amount of allogeneic transfusion and incidence of side effects after combined use of autologous transfusion. The purpose of this study is to investigate the efficacy of using an autologous transfusion device in TKA. MATE...

OBJECTIVE To assess the efficacy of a regional autologous blood donation programme. DESIGN Clinical and laboratory data were collected and stored prospectively. Transfusion data were collected retrospectively from hospital blood bank records. SETTING Northern Region Blood Transfusion Service and 14 hospitals within the Northern Regional Health Authority. SUBJECTS 505 patients referred for...