Strategies for blood conservation in pediatric cardiac surgery

Cardiac surgery accounts for the majority of blood transfusions in a hospital. Blood transfusion has been associated with complications and major adverse events after cardiac surgery. Compared to adults it is more difficult to avoid blood transfusion in children after cardiac surgery. This article t...

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Autor principal: Singh, Sarvesh Pal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5070332/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27716703
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9784.191562
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description Cardiac surgery accounts for the majority of blood transfusions in a hospital. Blood transfusion has been associated with complications and major adverse events after cardiac surgery. Compared to adults it is more difficult to avoid blood transfusion in children after cardiac surgery. This article takes into account the challenges and emphasizes on the various strategies that could be implemented, to conserve blood during pediatric cardiac surgery.
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spelling pubmed-50703322016-11-01 Strategies for blood conservation in pediatric cardiac surgery Singh, Sarvesh Pal Ann Card Anaesth Review Article Cardiac surgery accounts for the majority of blood transfusions in a hospital. Blood transfusion has been associated with complications and major adverse events after cardiac surgery. Compared to adults it is more difficult to avoid blood transfusion in children after cardiac surgery. This article takes into account the challenges and emphasizes on the various strategies that could be implemented, to conserve blood during pediatric cardiac surgery. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5070332/ /pubmed/27716703 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9784.191562 Text en Copyright: © 2016 Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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