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Blood Conservation and Management in Cardiac Surgery

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Cardiac surgical procedures requiring cardiopulmonary bypass necessitate systemic anticoagulation and exposure to the pro-inflammatory extracorporeal circuit. Surgical procedures already account for 50% of all allogeneic blood product administration. Cardiac surgical procedures are high-risk for bleeding and allogeneic transfusion. Transfusion rates in cardiac surgery vary widely, with rates of 40–90% of cardiac surgical patients will receive a transfusion; cardiac surgical procedures consist of 10–20% of total blood product administration in the United States [1–4].

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  1. Section on Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, Knoxville, TN, USA

    Blake A. Moore

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    Patrick O. McConville

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  1. NYU-Grossman School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, New York, NY, USA

    Corey S. Scher

  2. Departments of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology Toxicology, and Neurosciences, Louisiana State University School of Medicine-Shreveport, Shreveport, LA, USA

    Alan David Kaye

  3. Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA

    Henry Liu

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Moore, B.A., McConville, P.O. (2021). Blood Conservation and Management in Cardiac Surgery. In: Scher, C.S., Kaye, A.D., Liu, H., Perelman, S., Leavitt, S. (eds) Essentials of Blood Product Management in Anesthesia Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59295-0_33

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