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Contemporary Bloodletting in Cardiac Surgical Care

Monday, March 2, 2015

Submitted by

Mark Ferguson

Source

Source Name: Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: http://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-4975(14)01951-1/abstract

Author(s)

Colleen G. Koch, Edmunds Z. Reineks, Anne S. Tang, Eric D. Hixson, Shannon Phillips, Joseph F. Sabik, J. Michael Henderson, Eugene H. Blackstone

The frequency of blood draws after cardiac surgery is rarely tracked. This study tracked such activity for a 6-month period at the Cleveland Clinic. In over 1,800 pts, the average number of tests requiring blood was 115. Total average blood volume removed was 454 ml. The average for complex procedures was 653 ml. This system is ripe for process improvement.