I thought you might be interested in this case, We had a patient with whom we used the Hemobag, last week. We reinfused 900mls of Concentrated Autologous Whole Blood from the CPB circuit with the following: Hct = 57%, Platelets = 364K, Fibrinogen = 740mg , Albumin of 6.6g/dl and a Total protein of 11.7g/dl.
This was an over 80y/o female pt., AVR case. Post OP bleeding was 300ml. and left the ICU on Post-op Day #1. No blood products given. This was a new Fibrinogen record for the Hemobag at our institution and it was done in 12 minutes, while still keeping the extracorporeal circuit viable ready to go back emergently.

Scott R. Beckmann, C.C.P.