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Understanding Washing Intraoperative Shed Blood

Intraoperative blood management, a critical component of patient blood management (PBM), focuses on minimizing blood loss and reducing the need for allogeneic blood transfusions by optimizing the use of the patient’s own blood for autologous transfusion. A key technique in this approach is the red blood cell washing of shed blood prior to using centrifugal…