For decades, surgical patients and their physicians relied on donated bank blood as their primary source of blood replacement during surgical procedures. However, the confidence in homologous blood product had diminished in recent years due to the complication of blood borne infectious diseases, to include HIV and hepatitis.

 

Fortunately, there is a feasible alternative, which is autologous blood. Recommended by the American Medical Association's Council on Scientific Affairs, and described as the safest blood product by blood banks themselves, it is clearly the transfusion therapy of choice.

 

Now Blood Recovery Systems, Inc. makes this preferred methodology practical, as they employ a sophisticated autotransfusion technology, to bring patients, physicians, and hospital administrators to a new peace of mind.

 

Autotransfusion (or intraoperative autologous transfusion) technology has existed for some time and in recent years has become a standard of practice for open heart surgery. Now this technology can be, and is applied to a wide range of surgical procedures.

 

Blood shed, during the surgical procedure, is retrieved with an aspirator suction device which automatically mixes the blood with an anticoagulant and blood preserver. The blood is then stored in a filtered reservoir. Once enough blood has been collected, the autotransfusionist processes the blood with a sterile solution that eliminates all of the detrimental substances. The waste product generally comprises of free plasma hemoglobin, anticoagulants, cell fragments, and plasma with activated complements and platelets. The red blood cells are then packed together and maintained in a high concentration for re-infusion to the patient. This blood product goes through the same processing as the blood obtained from the blood bank. The advantage is, this blood product is the patient's own blood and would reduce or eliminate the patient's need for homologous bank blood.

 

Autotransfusion allows the physician to have the surgical patient's own blood collected, cleaned and transfused back during and after surgery. The risk of infection or alloimmunization is completely eliminated. In addition, autotransfused blood carries a higher level of oxygen because it has a higher density of clean red blood cells. From every perspective, autotransfusion by Blood Recovery Systems, Inc. is an extra measure of safety that you and your patients can feel good about.

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