Showing posts with label Transfusion medicine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Transfusion medicine. Show all posts

Friday, April 11, 2008

Blood conservation in cardiac surgery

In our day to day anesthetic practice, we are so busy saving lives, reviving arrests, that we spare little thought to improving our methods. Blood transfusion is one such intervention which needs to be looked at carefully. It can be harmful. It is more often than not unnecessary. This talk was given with a view to educate our fraternity that bloodless cardiac surgery is very much a possible thing, not just a pipe dream.