Perioperative blood transfusion and blood conservation in cardiac surgery: the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and The Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists clinical practice guideline.

By V. Ferraris, S. Ferraris, S. Saha, E. Hessel, C. Haan, B. David Royston, C. Bridges, R. Higgins, G. Despotis, Jeremiah R. Brown and 7 more. Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 2007

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Subfields: Biochemistry, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Surgery

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Citations in the corpus

• Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Patients With Thoracic Aortic Disease (2010, background): “1a.Hiratzka LF, Bakris GL, Beckman JA, et al. 2010 ACCF/AHA/AATS/ ACR/ASA/SCA/SCAI/SIR/STS/SVM guidelines for the diagnosis and management of patients with thoracic aoratic disease: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Asssociation Task Force on Practice Guideline”
• Coagulation Monitoring: Current Techniques and Clinical Use of Viscoelastic Point-of-Care Coagulation Devices (2008, methodology): “Therefore, the most recent guidelines on perioperative blood transfusion and blood conservation of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons and Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists clearly state that transfusion of coagulation products should be preferably guided by POC tests that assess hemostatic f”
• 2011 update to the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists blood conservation clinical practice guidelines. (2011, methodology): “Based on available evidence, the previous edition of the STS Blood Conservation Guidelines concluded that none of the putative beneficial effects of leukodepletion during CPB provide tangible clinical benefits, and recommend against its routine use for blood management in CPB [9].”
• The care of patients with an abdominal aortic aneurysm: the Society for Vascular Surgery practice guidelines. (2009, background): “Intraoperative blood salvage during OSR can be achieved using either red blood cells (RBC) processors or hemofiltration devices and are attractive under conditions where the safety of banked blood is a concern.(379) Cell processors collect shed whole blood and wash and separate RBC by centrifugation”