The reduction of allogeneic blood transfusions in cardiac surgery using a blood saving program

Authors

  • Pedro A. Hidalgo Menéndez Hospital Provincial Universitario Cardiocentro Ernesto Guevara
  • Osvaldo González Alfonso Hospital Provincial Universitario Cardiocentro Ernesto Guevara
  • Alain Moré Duarte Hospital Provincial Universitario Cardiocentro Ernesto Guevara
  • Leonel Fuentes Herrera Hospital Provincial Universitario Cardiocentro Ernesto Guevara
  • Rafael O. Rodríguez Hernández Hospital Provincial Universitario Cardiocentro Ernesto Guevara
  • Alina Ceballos Álvarez Hospital Provincial Universitario Cardiocentro Ernesto Guevara
  • Altinay Padrón Bulit Hospital Provincial Universitario Cardiocentro Ernesto Guevara

Keywords:

hemodilution, thoracic surgery, blood transfusion

Abstract

Antecedents and objectives: Cardiac surgery has been a process which traditionally requires large amounts of homologous blood transfusions. Due to the negative effects on perioperative morbimortality, and its cost, some alternatives have been developed in order to reduce or avoid giving a transfusion to the patients. The aim of this study is to put into practice and assess the effectiveness of a strategy for reducing the use of allogeneic transfusions in the cardiac surgery perioperative at the Ernesto Che Guevara Cardiology Hospital. Method: 151 patients, who were operated on with or without extracorporeal circulation, and who were inserted in a blood saving program that included acute intentional normovolemic hemodilution with autotransfusion during the year 2008, were studied in order to assess the effectiveness of such strategies. Results: It was possible to avoid the transfusions with allogeneic components in 55 percent of the patients (56.0 percent from the group intervened with extracorporeal circulation (ECC), and 52.64 percent of the patients operated on without ECC) and the patients who received the transfusions needed a smaller amount of allogeneic blood components, as well as fewer units administered through the transfusion. Conclusions: The strategies for saving blood were effective in order to reduce the homologous transfusions in the cardiac surgery perioperative.

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Hidalgo Menéndez PA, González Alfonso O, Moré Duarte A, Fuentes Herrera L, Rodríguez Hernández RO, Ceballos Álvarez A, et al. The reduction of allogeneic blood transfusions in cardiac surgery using a blood saving program. CorSalud [Internet]. 2025 Aug. 2 [cited 2025 Aug. 23];1(3). Available from: https://revcorsalud.sld.cu/index.php/cors/article/view/1077

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