Background: Patients undergoing open-heart surgery frequently require one or more blood
transfusions. Because of the risks of receiving blood from volunteer donors, some patients …

OBJECTIVES: The objective of this randomized, controlled study was to determine the
usefulness of a decision aid on pre-donation of autologous blood before elective open heart …

Blood transfusions are frequently necessary for patients having open heart surgery.
Although autologous blood is free of such risks as transfusion-transmitted diseases, the …

BACKGROUND: Preoperative autologous donation is one way to decrease a patient's
exposure to allogeneic blood transfusion. This study was designed to determine patients' …

BACKGROUND: Preoperative autologous blood donation is commonly used to reduce
exposure to allogeneic transfusions among patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery …

Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess transfusion requirements in patients
undergoing cardiac surgery with and without autologous blood donation and to calculate the …

Concern about the safety of the aliogeneic blood supply has made preoperative autologous
blood donation (PAD) routine before major noncardiac operations. However, the costs and …

Objective We sought to assess the efficacy of preoperative autologous blood donation in
reducing patient exposure to allogeneic blood products following elective cardiac surgery …

Many patients are donating their own blood before surgery to avoid blood-borne infections,
often on the advice of their physicians. But autologous blood transfusion, while safer than …

Before planned surgery, patients may choose autologous donation in order to avoid the
small, but potential, risks of receiving an allogeneic blood transfusion. This study examined …