Korean J Anesthesiol.
1978 Mar;11(1):72-75.
A Case of Accidental Autotransfusion
- Affiliations
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- 1Department of Anesthesiology, Chungnam National University, College of Medicine, Daejon, Korea.
Abstract
- During resection of the femoral artery aneurysm under Halothane-N2O-O2 anesthesia, the authors experienced accidental autotransfusion in which the autologous blood aspirated and collected in plastic bag, were transfused to the patient without hematologic test. But there were no clinical problems without mild bleeding tendency.