You do realize there are many reasons people may want their own blood, right. A friend of mine got hepatitis during heart surgery in the 90s...and then there’s aids/related diseases. I will use whatever words I want. And I was referring to the elites and what they might do...so just get off your little horsey...sheesh
I’m not on my horse at all. Recently there has been a lot on these threads about autologous transfusion for “pure blood” reasons. While I don’t think it’s reasonable from a medicine perspective i also 100% support patient choice so long as there is no conflicting data.
I know that autologous transfusion went out the window a while back as a result of reduction of overall transfusion practices once we learned that old blood is bad blood and transfusions are quite risky. Used to be transfusion was quite liberal.
So I thought I would find the answer to the question. Where there it had gone completely by the wayside and why or what the actual story is. Turns out that large academic universities still perform autologous blood transfusion. Long process to get it before surgery and lots of timing issues. But I wanted people to know there was a very legitimate choice and where to seek it out.
Lots of good reasons for it as you pointed out. Zero chance of mismatch reaction. Additionally if transfused back as whole blood instead of fractionated there are excellent properties that would not be seen if banked autologous blood were used
I always try to present all reasonable options. In my judgment although I would not do autologous blood for me personally it is a valid strategy. I want people to know where to get it because community hospitals I am guessing would just say no options.
I know I prefer my own blood.
What self respecting Irishman wants whisky free blood anyway?
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I had surgery in 1981. Almost a year later, an apologetic and stressed RN called me (nothing in writing, BTW) to inform me I needed to test for HIV because the blood I received was contaminated.
I tested negative, but the angst, the anxiety, the sense of betrayal was huge. And it took so long to do the tracking that, had I been positive, I could have infected my husband.
You can only imagine my response to the Covid contact tracing program.
“A blood transfusion is a organ transplant every time,” if from donor source.
If these two a-holllls bother you,and they are pathetic, do what I do and report their sorry asses. Eventually, the mods will do something.
On the blood supply before it was pretty much secured years ago my father got a transfusion.It was clearly tainted blood.Some years later it killed him.