Blood Conservation in the Surgical Patient

Principles of blood transfusion; coagulation and hemostasis; principles of oxygen transport; blood conservation; perioperative hemoglobin requirements; preoperative autologous blood donation; acute normovolemic hemodilution; deliberate hypotension; blood salvage techniques; blood substitutes; blood conservation in Jehovah's witnesses; blood conservation in special situations: anaesthesiologists' viewpoints - obstetrics and gynaecology, orthotopic liver transplantation, neurosurgery, cardiac surgery, paediatric surgery, orthopaedic surgery; surgical haemostasis and blood conservation - endovascular embolization in the management of skull-base tumours, cardiac and thoracic surgery, neurosurgery, gastroenterology, head and neck surgery, orthopaedic surgery, trauma surgery, plastic surgery and burns.