Our experience of postoperative saving of drainage blood in orthopaedic surgery

Postoperative saving of drainage blood presents postoperative autologous transfusion and that means group of action of collection patients blood and its late reinfision. The conditions of orthopaedic surgery join with arthroplasty of coxae and knee are connected with signicifant loss of blood (800-1200 ml). With the aim of reducing the need for use of heterologous blood and elimination of potentional risks because of her application, we investigate the possibility of application the system of posteoperative saving of drainage blood in the study group of 48 patients in relation of control group of 25 patients. Postoperative blood saving has been derived after the first 4-8 hours, after the and of surgical operation. In the study group only 4 patients (8%) need additional heterologous transfusions. Postoperative blood saving and its reinfusion have not significant effect at hemostasis and sistem of coagulation. During six months postoperative, no patients in the study group have not any complication after orthopaedic surgery.