Use of Accessible Blood Filter for Post-operative Cell Salvage in Cardiac Surgery

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Rosita Bihariesingh Pieter Voigt Rakesh Bansie

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Rosita Bihariesingh
Department of Anesthesiology & Intensive Care, Academic Hospital, Paramaribo, Suriname

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The availability of centrifugal cell savers supports intraoperative cell salvage and thereby reduces the need for allogeneic red blood cell transfusion. Use of these devices, however, is limited to the operating room, forcing a switch to allogeneic products in the post-operative setting. Here we present a case of massive post-operative bleeding due to severe coagulopathy following CABG. Due to the lack of availability of donor blood products a novel blood filter (HemoClear BV, Zwolle, the Netherlands) was used for post-operative salvage. Because of its accessible use, we believe this salvage device has great clinical value in the poor-resource setting.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Fri 20, Aug 2021
Accepted: Sat 04, Sep 2021
Published: Fri 24, Sep 2021

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© 2023 Rosita Bihariesingh. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.IJSCR.2021.02.01