[Initial experience of work on a program of complete preservation of the patient's blood in heart surgery].

: A complex program on complete preservation of a patient's blood was adopted during and after cardiac surgery with extracorporeal circulation. The major principles of such a "hemotransfusionless" surgery are 1) to minimize irrevocable blood loss; 2) to fully return a cardioplegic solution into the blood during extracorporeal circulation; 3) to apply autohemotransfusion controlled by hemodilution and hemoconcentration; and 4) to reinfuse drained blood in the nearest postoperative period. One hundred and twelve patients were treated by the program. The average expenditure of donor blood per patient was 543 +/- 343 ml, donor blood was not transfused to 44 (39%) patients during their entire stay in hospital.