"Bleeding and Use of Blood Products after Heart Operations in Infants."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, "Recent studies have suggested that postoperative bleeding is decreased in pediatric heart operations if fresh whole blood instead of blood component therapy is used for postoperative transfusions. Because this is in contrast to our practice to use whole blood for only the priming of the cardiopulmonary bypass circuit and then to use blood components for additional transfusion requirements, it was our interest to analyze the bleeding complications and the use of blood products after heart operations in infants. The patient records of the 73 infants operated on in 1992 were...

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