Table 3 |
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Advantages and disadvantages of autologous blood donation |
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Advantages |
Disadvantages |
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Prevents transfusion-transmitted disease |
Risk of bacterial contamination or volume overload remains |
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Prevents red cell alloimmunization |
Does not eliminate risk of administrative error with ABO incompatibility |
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Supplements the blood supply |
More costly than allogeneic blood |
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Provides compatible blood for patients with alloantibodies |
Wastage of blood not transfused |
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Prevents some adverse transfusion reactions |
Causes perioperative anemia and increased likelihood of transfusion |
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Data from Goodnough and coworkers [2]. |
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Goodnough Critical Care 2004 8(Suppl 2):S49 doi:10.1186/cc2408 |
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