Transfusion medicine
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Transfusion medicine · Aug 2017
Performance of a new-generation continuous autotransfusion device including fat removal and consequences for quality controls.
Cell salvage plays a key role in blood conservation. To maintain high performance, quality management is recommended. Accordingly, a new-generation autotransfusion device was tested for its performance and compared with its predecessor. Two different calculations of quality parameters were applied. ⋯ The new-generation autotransfusion device CATSmart is not inferior to its predecessor and shows high performance with regards to RBC recovery, plasma and fat elimination in all programme modes. Samples for quality controls should be taken during blood processing.