The Role of Technology and Clinical Practice: Emboli Monitoring (Video)
World's Largest Resource for Cardiovascular Perfusion
Carla Bistrick discusses the proposition of washing packed red cells to decrease the systemic inflammatory response (12:38 minutes).
Perioperative coagulopathy and bleeding are common complications in cardiovascular surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass and result in an increased rate of allogeneic blood transfusion. Both bleeding and transfusion can increase postoperative mortality and morbidity.
Previous observations suggest that intraoperative blood transfusion (IBT) is a risk factor for adverse postoperative outcomes. IBT alters immune function and may predispose to systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS).