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Conservation of blood in cardiac surgery

S W Lavender1

  • 1Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC.

Physician Assistant (American Academy of Physician Assistants)
|May 8, 1994
PubMed

The rising costs of surgical care and decreasing third-party reimbursement mandate conservation of surgical resources and supplies whenever possible. One such resource is autologous blood. Its conservation has the added benefit of protecting the patient from the potential dangers of homologous blood and its products. This article presents conservation techniques found to be feasible in open-heart surgery.

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