The doctor explained the following requirements for autologous blood donation: the patient can’t donate within 72 hours prior to surgery, no age limitation for autologous donation, must be in overall good health and no present heart conditions, autologous units must be prescribed by the physician, discontinue use of Tylenol, aspirin, and alcohol.
Preoperative autologous donation has advantages and disadvantages. The advantages of autologous blood donation is prevents transfusion transmitted disease, red cell lloimmunization, provides compatible blood for patients with alloantibodies, prevents …show more content…
The basics three methods for autologous transfusion are cell salvage, preoperative autonomous donation, and acute normovolaemic hemodilution. The cell salvage is the most common technique and consists of blood collection from suction, surgical drains, then have to retransfusion back to the patient after the blood cells are filtered or washed.
When is collected Preoperative autologous donation is used a particular procedure, and stored in the blood bank, them transfused to the patient when is necessary. Acute normovolaemic hemodilution is when blood is collected right before a procedure and the blood volume collected is restored as crystalloid or colloid. After the procedure is completed, the blood is then transfused back to the patient after achieving hemostasis.
Typically, these autonomous units are not used for other patients and if unused, the units are discarded. The autologous units are stored separate from other units and are typically not refrigerated and kept in front of the