Blood transfusion after heart bypass surgery

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Heart bypass surgery is called coronary artery bypass surgery in traditional Chinese medicine. Most of the patients who need heart bypass surgery are the elderly, because of smoking, irregular diet, excessive drinking and so on. Now let's talk about blood transfusion after heart bypass surgery.

Blood transfusion after heart bypass surgery

First: as we all know, cardiac surgery is a big blood consumer. Although the purpose of blood transfusion is to save lives, blood transfusion itself also has great risks, especially the occurrence of severe postoperative infection.

Second, in cardiac surgery, we should use blood recovery, reduce the amount of cardiopulmonary bypass priming, intravenous pump assisted rapid autologous blood priming, the use of ultrafiltration device, and other preoperative or intraoperative methods to increase hematocrit to limit the number of red blood cells transfusion.

Third: after heart bypass surgery, blood bypasses the narrow part and reaches the ischemic part of the heart to improve the blood supply of the myocardium, so as to relieve the symptoms of angina pectoris, improve the heart function, improve the quality of life and prolong the life of patients.

matters needing attention

Heart bypass surgery is not suitable for the elderly, but for the young, because of the great damage to artery bypass and the difficulty of operation. Bypass surgery has a high success rate, but there are also many complications.