Blood-Sparing Heart Surgery With Cardio-pulmonary Bypass: Limiting the Use of Blood Products for Repair of Congenital Heart Disease
Blood-Sparing Heart Surgery With Cardio-pulmonary Bypass: Limiting the Use of Blood Products for Repair of Congenital Heart Disease https://pediatricsnationwide.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/081015ds0175HR-crop.jpg 432 351 Katie Brind'Amour, PhD, MS, CHES https://pediatricsnationwide.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Katie-B-portrait.gif
More than two decades of work suggest that not only can complicated cardiac surgeries be done without blood transfusions but the outcomes are likely just as good as the traditional approach. For the multidisciplinary team of clinicians at Nationwide Children’s, blood transfusion and cardio-pulmonary bypass (CPB) operations are not inseparable concepts. What started out as…