What is Autologous Transfusion?
Autologous blood transfusion is a safer method of blood transfusion, which collects the patient's own blood or blood components, and then stores it back to the patient when needed during or after surgery. Autotransfusion includes storage autotransfusion, recovery autotransfusion and diluted autotransfusion.
Basic Information
- Chinese name
- Autotransfusion
- Foreign name
- Autologous blood transfusion / Autologous transfusion / autotransfusion
- Advantages
- Can prevent blood-borne diseases
- the way
- Recovery autotransfusion method
Advantages of autotransfusion
- 1. It can avoid the hemolytic reaction, fever and allergy caused by the transfusion of allogeneic blood. It can also avoid the host-response of the graft and the recipient's immune function due to the transfusion of allogeneic blood.
- 2. Blood safety, no risk of transmitting blood-borne infectious diseases such as AIDS, malaria, syphilis, liver disease, cytomegalovirus.
- 3. The possibility of metabolic acidosis, hypocalcemia, and hyperkalemia after transfusion is very low.
- 4. The returned autologous blood is fresh, and its oxygen carrying function and coagulation function are much better than stock allogeneic blood.
- 5. It can alleviate the current situation of blood tension and solve the problem of blood supply for some rare blood types such as Rh negative blood types.
- 6. Expand blood sources, reduce patients' financial expenses, and provide safe blood use.
- 7. Patients undergoing autologous blood transfusion can stimulate the vitality of bone marrow hematopoietic cells due to the need for repeated blood draws, which can speed up the patient's hematopoiesis after surgery and is conducive to physical rehabilitation.
Clinical significance of autotransfusion
- While ensuring the safety of patients' blood transfusion, the pressure of blood donation by blood collection and supply institutions can be reduced. In addition, the autologous blood recovery can timely replenish the blood to the patient, maintain the patient's blood volume and blood pressure, and enable the patient to successfully complete the operation, especially for emergency rescue and patients with major bleeding during surgery, which can win the rescue time and improve the success of emergency rescue rate. In addition, it can also solve the surgical blood of patients with special rare blood types, especially suitable for patients with rare blood types.