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Blood conservation helps avoid transfusion trauma
 

By T.M. Shultz,
The Daily Courier (Prescott, Ariz.)
Saturday, June 28, 2008

It may be the latest buzzword in medicine, but blood conservation is here to stay, local experts say.

Blood conservation is a way to conserve and strengthen a patient's own blood so that a blood transfusion isn't needed during surgery.

Blood conservation is good for hospitals because it saves them money, and it's good for patients because, in general, people who don't use blood transfusions - even transfusions of their own stockpiled blood - during surgery do better medically, says Richard Melseth, director of Blood Conservation Medicine at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix. Banner is a recognized Arizona leader in blood conservation techniques.

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