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Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, Vol 19, 335-338, Copyright © 1972 by Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society

Management of Open Heart Surgery without the Use of Blood the Function of Blood Volume Determinations

D. C. FLNLAYSON M.D., F.R.C.P.(C)1 and R. K. SURI M.D.2

1 University of Toronto and st. Michael's Hospital
2 Division of Cardiovascular surgery, St. Michael's Hospital

An approach to the management of open heart surgery in Jehovah's Witnesses is described. Its success appears to depend on meticulous surgical dissection and haemostasis and on Surgery accomplished with reasonable dispatch in the presence of red cell mass and plasma volume initially larger than normal which, after haemodynamic correction, would facilitate the return of the blood volume back to normal.

Note:
Present address: Asst.Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Postgraduate Insitute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.






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