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Bloodless Surgery
The practice of bloodless medicine involves the delivery of medical and surgical care without the transfusion of blood products. This technique has long been applied to Jehovah's Witness patients, but it is now experiencing widespread popularity with other patients due to the lessened risk of infection and immunologic complications.
Dr Subash Gupta, Consultant Liver Surgeon, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi for Liver Disease use a multidisciplinary approach to eliminate the need for the transfusion of blood and blood products. The strategy is to build up the body's own reserve of blood components prior to an operation and perform all surgeries in a fashion that minimizes blood loss. Of critical importance are distinct identification of anatomic planes and rapid control of even minor hemorrhage using surgical ligation and local agents that promote coagulation in the operative field. Dr. Gupta has excelled this technique during the past 5 years as liver transplant surgeon.Liver transplant surgery is a long and complicated procedure in which all efforts must be made to reduce stresses on the patient. Keeping blood loss to a minimum is of vital importance.
Dr Subash Gupta, Consultant Liver Surgeon, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi for Liver Disease use a multidisciplinary approach to eliminate the need for the transfusion of blood and blood products. The strategy is to build up the body's own reserve of blood components prior to an operation and perform all surgeries in a fashion that minimizes blood loss. Of critical importance are distinct identification of anatomic planes and rapid control of even minor hemorrhage using surgical ligation and local agents that promote coagulation in the operative field. Dr. Gupta has excelled this technique during the past 5 years as liver transplant surgeon.Liver transplant surgery is a long and complicated procedure in which all efforts must be made to reduce stresses on the patient. Keeping blood loss to a minimum is of vital importance.
Early on, surgeon realized the patient benefits of bloodless surgery in transplantation and began applying the same technique to all abdominal surgical procedures that they performed. Regardless of whether their patients were having surgery for something as simple as a hernia or as complex as major liver or pancreatic surgery, the bloodless surgical technique was used. The results for patients were immediately obvious. The frequency of post-surgical infections was lessened, as was the patient's recuperation time. Bloodless surgical techniques are the standard practice of Dr. Gupta at the Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals for Liver Disease.
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