surgical blood management

surgical blood management

The manner in which blood or volume expanders are used in surgery, with the intent of minimising the risk of infection and immunoreactivity, while reducing or eliminating allogeneic transfusions.

surgical blood management

Transfusion medicine The manner in which blood or volume expanders are used in surgery, with the intent of minimizing the risk of infection and immunoreactivity, while reducing or eliminating allogeneic transfusions. See Autologous transfusion, Colloids, Crystalloids, Hemodilution, Intraoperative blood salvage, Postoperative reinfusion, Preoperative autologous donation. Surgical blood management techniques Intraoperative blood salvage
Postoperative reinfusion
Transfusion
 Allogeneic donation  Autologous (self) donation Hemodilution
 Colloids  Crystalloids