Blood transfusion

Re: Blood transfusion

Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:31:45 GMT

I haven't done it very often either but my approach has been:

induce GA with propofol (no premeds), maintain with isoflurane; wait five minutes; keep plane of anaesthesia light; take blood from jugular vein of course.

I figure that an inhalational anaesthetic is the only drug I can remove from the body almost as fast as I put it in, and of course the endotracheal tube and oxygen are in place.

And it's cheap.

I now await the flaming missiles from anaesthetists.

Re: Blood transfusion

R. Antonio La Greca — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:44:02 GMT

Thank you for your advice Virginia. I'll try it asap!

Re: Blood transfusion

Virginia Campbell — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:01:56 GMT

Have only had to do it once; used Dom+torb (think was 0.3+0.1ml in 5kg cat) and got blood out of jugular. It didn't affect the recipient! Hopefully somebody who does this more regularly will answer.