Background
blood loss
BLOOD LOSS, ADVERSE EFFECTS, BLOOD
Allogenic blood transfusion, a necessary tool in managing perioperative blood loss, has several adverse effects. Perioperative allogenic blood transfusion, even when limited in volume, is associated with postoperative morbidity, increased length of stay and so cost, and mortality in both general and cardiac surgery [Blood collected in the cell saver blood collection reservoir (BCR) can be used to study the effects of heparin vs. citrate directly on inflammatory parameters in red blood cells collected from the surgical field. To our knowledge, only one clinical study by Mortelmans et al. compared the effects of these anticoagulants in CS [