Coronary artery bypass grafting surgery without the routine application of blood products: Is it feasible?
This study clearly demonstrates that the avoidance of routine intraoperative FFP administration does not lead to an increase in blood loss postoperatively compared to patients that received FFPs. Furthermore, we did not observe increased requirements for postoperative FFP infusion in patients that did not receive FFPs intraoperatively.
Splenic dysfunction, as measured by the pocked RBC count, does not account for the increased occurrence of invasive pneumococcal disease found in children infected with HIV.