In pictures: Blood processing enterprise. Copy link. 28/02/2014 16:01 (GMT+07:00) Within eight hours, blood must be processed into safe products. Hundreds of employees of the Central Hematology and ...

For example, intraoperative blood salvage—a medical procedure that involves recovering blood lost during surgery and reintroducing it into a patient’s body—has become the main alternative to ...

Do you know your own blood type? If not, a quick look at your medical records or your donor card can hopefully answer that question, and help practitioners identify the right type needed for ...

Intraoperative cell salvage — a process in which shed blood is collected and processed so red blood cells may be transfused back into a patient — led to fewer transfusions and was a safe and ...

Transfusion with a trauma patient's own blood may offer a cost-effective alternative ... effects of intraoperative cell salvage and autologous transfusion in trauma patients undergoing ...

Still, many doctors today turn to transfusion as an automatic practice, giving borderline anemic patients smaller amounts of blood — often just one to two units — out of habit, said Hannon ...

July 21, 2010 — Intraoperative cell salvage, during which blood shed during trauma is collected and then transfused back into a patient, appears to be safe and cost-effective compared with ...

The restricted use of allogeneic blood transfusions has been accepted throughout the world as important in reducing risk, particularly of the transmission of infectious diseases.1 In orthopedic ...

In the blood cell salvage arm of a comparative study of 68 women who had a caesarean section, there were no reported complications from re-infusing salvaged blood. Unused salvaged blood from 15 women ...