ArticleAnesthesia and analgesia2014
Stationary versus agitated storage of whole blood during acute normovolemic hemodilution.
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backgroundAcute normovolemic hemodilution is an intraoperative technique to reduce the number of red blood cells lost in shed blood during surgery. Standard guidelines for storage of platelets recommend constant gentle agitation to maintain gas exchange for the metabolically active platelets. The collected whole blood (WB) for acute normovolemic hemodilution remains stationary for as long as 8 hours before reinfusion. We hypothesized that gentle agitation of WB throughout storage would improve the coagulation properties of the WB at the time of reinfusion.
methodsWB was collected from 10 volunteer donors and control samples taken. The units were split in 2 storage groups: agitated (rocked) and stationary (unrocked). Cell counts and fibrinogen levels, as well as thromboelastography (TEG®) measurements, including TEG® PlateletMapping® assays, were performed on the control sample and the test samples after 8 hours of rocked or unrocked storage at room temperature.
resultsNine units WB from 9 different healthy volunteers were tested. There were no significant differences in hematocrit, hemoglobin, red blood cells counts, platelet counts, or fibrinogen levels between the control samples and the rocked and unrocked WB samples. WB coagulation as measured by TEG® was preserved during the 8-hour storage period in both the rocked and unrocked samples. There were no significant differences between the control, rocked, and unrocked samples in time to initiate clotting, time of clot formation, rate of clot formation, or maximum strength of clot values. There were also no significant differences in the fibrin contribution to clot strength between the control, rocked, and unrocked samples, and no significant difference between the platelet activation from adenosine diphosphate or arachidonic acid among any of the 3 groups.
conclusionsGiven the small sample size, there is no statistical evidence on which to reject the null hypothesis of there being no difference in the changes from the baseline between coagulation function as measured by TEG® between WB that is either agitated or kept stationary for 8 hours. These findings need to be confirmed in a larger study.
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