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Review
. 2005 Jun;23(2):347-61, vii.
doi: 10.1016/j.atc.2005.03.001.

Blood conservation in pediatric anesthesia

B Craig Weldon  1
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Review

Blood conservation in pediatric anesthesia

B Craig Weldon. Anesthesiol Clin North Am. 2005 Jun.

Abstract

This review focuses on perioperative blood conservation techniques and the role of transfusion triggers and algorithms, preoperative autologous donation, acute normovolemic hemodilution, intraoperative blood salvage, deliberate hypotension, and preoperative recombinant human erythropoietin in avoiding allogeneic blood transfusion in pediatric patients.

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