PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Domen, Ronald E.
TI  - Preoperative autologous blood donation: clinical, economic, and ethical issues
DP  - 1996 Sep 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 295--300
VI  - 63
IP  - 5
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/63/5/295.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/63/5/295.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med1996 Sep 01; 63
AB  - SUMMARY 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.