Mild volume acute normovolemic hemodilution is associated with lower intraoperative transfusion and postoperative pulmonary infection in patients undergoing cardiac surgery -- a retrospective, propensity matching study.

BMC Anesthesiol · 2017 · PMC5267449 · PMID 28122491

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Although Valter Casati et al.’s study did not find positive efficacy of low-volume ANH [ 8 ], we noticed that there was a decreasing trend of intraoperative RBC transfusions in the ANH group compared to non-ANH group (4.9% vs. 7%).

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