Patent ID: 6398751
Filing Date: 2002-06-04
Classification: A61J,A61M,Y10S

Abstract:
In an operating room where a cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) system is used on a patient in a surgical field to introduce externally oxygenated blood into the patient through an arterial cannula and to remove deoxygenated blood from the patient through a venous cannula, by means of a CPB circuit, a method of recapturing the patient's blood from the CPB circuit after the arterial cannula and venous cannula have been removed from the patient, comprising:(a) transferring at least most of the blood in the CPB circuit into a sterile bag located in the surgical field; (b) removing the bag with blood from the surgical field; (c) outside the surgical field, hemo-concentrating the blood in the bag; (d) sealing the bag containing hemo-concentrated blood; (e) removing the sealed bag from the operating room; (f) removing said patient from the operating room; and (g) after step (f), transfusing blood from said sealed bag to said patient.