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Ann Thorac Surg 1978;26:11-16
© 1978 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Blood Loss and Bank Blood Requirement in Coronary Bypass Surgery

Department of Surgery, Memorial Medical Center, Savannah, GA

^* Address reprint requests to Dr. Thomas J. Yeh, 5112 Paulsen St, Savannah, GA 31405

With the use of nonblood prime and refinement in perfusion and surgical techniques, blood requirement for coronary bypass operations has been reduced to a minimum. Of 240 patients (average number of bypasses, 3.07; average pump time, two hours and 22 minutes), no blood was used in pump prime or before perfusion. During perfusion, 29 patients (12%) received 34 units of blood in the pump-oxygenator, and after bypass 64 patients (27%) received 65 units of blood in the operating room (average intraoperative use, 203 ml per patient). For the total hospital stay, the blood requirement was 728 ml per patient. For the last 60 patients operated on, the figure was 328 ml. There were no surgical deaths, and only 1 reexploration for postoperative hemorrhage (0.4%). Discharge hemoglobin level averaged 11.8 gm, whereas the admission hemoglobin level had averaged 13.8 gm. Autotransfusion, avoidance of entry into the pleural space, shorter perfusion time, postoperative platelet count of more than 150,000, and normal partial thromboplastin time tend to reduce blood requirement, but not to a striking degree. Bank blood requirement for the coronary bypass program accounted for 3.7% of the hospital need and 2% of the community need.

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