TY - JOUR
T1 - Preoperative autologous blood donation
T2 - Clinical, economic, and ethical issues
AU - Domen, Ronald
PY - 1996/1/1
Y1 - 1996/1/1
N2 - Many patients are donating their own blood before surgery to avoid blood-borne infections, often on the advice of their physicians. But autologous blood transfusion, while safer than allogeneic transfusion, is not completely risk-free. It is also expensive, its benefits are difficult to assess, and its increasing popularity raises many difficult ethical issues, such as whether the benefit of allogeneic transfusion supports its additional expense.
AB - Many patients are donating their own blood before surgery to avoid blood-borne infections, often on the advice of their physicians. But autologous blood transfusion, while safer than allogeneic transfusion, is not completely risk-free. It is also expensive, its benefits are difficult to assess, and its increasing popularity raises many difficult ethical issues, such as whether the benefit of allogeneic transfusion supports its additional expense.
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U2 - 10.3949/ccjm.63.5.295
DO - 10.3949/ccjm.63.5.295
M3 - Article
C2 - 8870340
AN - SCOPUS:0030238972
SN - 0891-1150
VL - 63
SP - 295
EP - 300
JO - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JF - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
IS - 5
ER -