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Volume 340:525-533 February 18, 1999 Number 7
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Transfusion Medicine — Blood Conservation— Second of Two Parts
Lawrence T. Goodnough, M.D., Mark E. Brecher, M.D., Michael H. Kanter, M.D., and James P. AuBuchon, M.D.

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Preoperative Autologous Donation

Preoperative autologous donation was rarely used before the recognition that HIV could be transmitted by blood transfusion. Fifteen years ago, fewer than 5 percent of eligible patients who were scheduled for elective surgery chose autologous blood donation.121 When public awareness of the possibility of transfusion-transmitted HIV became widespread, however, there was concern that too few patients were choosing autologous blood donation as an option. Several states, including California, passed legislation requiring that whenever it was "reasonably" likely that transfusion would be needed, a patient should be informed of all of the options regarding and alternatives to allogeneic blood transfusion. Subsequently, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Erythropoiesis

Use in Managed Care

Acute Normovolemic Hemodilution

Efficacy

Intraoperative Recovery of Blood

Postoperative Recovery of Blood

Emerging Developments in Transfusion Medicine

Inactivation of Microbes in Platelet Units

Use of Plasma with Reduced Viral Infectivity

Use of Red-Cell Substitutes

Conclusions


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From the Departments of Medicine and Pathology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis (L.T.G.); the Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (M.E.B.); the Department of Pathology, Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Woodland Hills, Calif. (M.H.K.); and the Department of Pathology, Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, N.H. (J.P.A.).

Address reprint requests to Dr. Goodnough at Washington University School of Medicine, Division of Laboratory Medicine, Box 8118, 660 S. Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110-1093.

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