Reinfusion

It is a milder alternative to donated blood transfusion, as donor blood can be infected with HIV , viral hepatitis , syphilis , and malaria . Foreign blood can cause varying degrees of severity of the incompatibility reaction.

In addition, some patients refuse to donate blood for religious reasons.

Scheduled Interventions

If the patient is preparing for the "planned" operation , you can pre-prepare his own blood in approximately the following way:

• 1st day - sampling 200 ml of blood,
• 2nd day - infusion of prepared 200 ml, then a fence of 400 ml,
• 3rd day - infusion of prepared 400 ml of blood, intake of 600 ml.

Thus, by the day of surgery, you can prepare a sufficient amount of your own blood.

Emergency Interventions

During an “urgent” operation, the patient is reinfused with blood that has been poured out in the body cavity (pleural, abdominal). The condition is the absence of damage to the hollow organs - to preserve blood asepticity . Autologous blood obtained in this way is usually stabilized with heparin or sodium citrate , and filtered through 8 layers of gauze.

Using modern technology, it is possible for a patient to transfuse even the blood that is released at the site of the surgical incision. With this technique, donor blood is almost not needed.

Re-infusion in sport is equivalent to the use of doping (the so-called “blood doping”) due to an increase in the number of red blood cells in the blood and, consequently, improved oxygen delivery to body tissues.