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Blood conservation in pediatric anesthesia
Blood conservation in pediatric anesthesia.
Weldon BC.
Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University School of Medicine, 3200 Erwin Road, P.O. Box 3094, Suite 3425 DN, Durham, NC 27710, USA. Craig.Weldon@duke.edu
This review focuses on perioperative blood conservation techniques and the role of transfusion triggers and algorithms, preoperative autologous donation, acute normovolemic hemodilution, intraoperative blood salvage, deliberate hypotension, and preoperative recombinant human erythropoietin in avoiding allogeneic blood transfusion in pediatric patients.
Publication Types: PMID: 15922905 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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