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The Salvage of Heparinized Blood with Acid‐Citrate‐Dextrose
Author(s) -
Button Lawrence N.,
Gibson John G.,
Kevy Sherwin V.
Publication year - 1963
Publication title -
transfusion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.045
H-Index - 132
eISSN - 1537-2995
pISSN - 0041-1132
DOI - 10.1111/j.1537-2995.1963.tb04601.x
Subject(s) - medicine , blood preservation , blood transfusion , blood units , surgery , anesthesia , andrology
Heparinized blood not used at operation may be salvaged by transfer to Acid‐Citrate‐Dextrose (ACD) within 24 hours after collection. Collection and transfer must be done in a closed system and adequate refrigeration maintained from collection to transfusion. In five experiments, post‐transfusion survival studies have shown the percentage of viable cells to fall to 70 per cent in about 12 days. Plasma p H, hemoglobin, and potassium levels were within the same range as those of ACD bloods stored for similar periods. Of 180 heparinized bloods not used because of changes in operative schedules, 158 were salvaged and transfused, within this limit, in other cases.