What Is The Advantage Of Autotransfusion?

Avoid infection, no rejection and fast recovery. There is an autologous blood recovery device next to the operating table. The doctor uses a sterile plastic tube to suck the blood from the patient's bleeding place into the autologous blood recovery device. After filtering, cleaning and other layers of treatment, the clean blood returns to the patient through the vein again. This is a general surgical operation in the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University recently. Different from the past, this blood transfusion did not use a drop of other people's blood, and all the blood input into the patient's body is his own blood, that is, autologous blood transfusion.
"Compared with previous allogeneic blood transfusion, autologous blood transfusion can not only reduce the risk of infection with AIDS, hepatitis and other diseases, but also avoid hemolysis, fever, allergy and other rejection adverse reactions caused by allogeneic blood transfusion, and it can make patients recover faster than allogeneic blood transfusion." Hao Yiwen, director of the blood transfusion department of the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, said, "Therefore, autologous blood transfusion is also known as the best way to supply blood."
At present, before patients undergo major surgery, the chief surgeon will generally take the initiative to tell the patients whether to use autologous blood. If the patients agree, they will take blood according to their own conditions. "With autologous blood transfusion, on average, each operation can save at least 500~600 ml of blood."