Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research (Aug 2016)

A review of the application of autologous blood transfusion

  • J. Zhou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/1414-431x20165493
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 49, no. 9

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Autologous blood transfusion (ABT) has been gradually attracting more attention due to the increasingly prominent problem of blood transfusion safety and blood shortage in recent years. With the rapid development of blood conservation techniques, blood component separation technology, blood transfusion medicine and a constant increase in clinical needs, ABT technology has been expanded and innovated to a large degree. In this study, the development of preoperative autologous blood donation (PABD), acute normovolemic hemodilution (ANH), intraoperative and postoperative autotransfusion, and other new technologies and theories are reviewed and existing questions are analyzed. Challenges and applications are also discussed in order to provide reference for peers.

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