RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Preoperative autologous blood donation: clinical, economic, and ethical issues
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 295
OP 300
VO 63
IS 5
A1 Domen, Ronald E.
YR 1996
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/63/5/295.abstract
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.