Hello. I have a plethora of questions I want to ask, but i will ambitiously try to roll this into one topic. Those of you out there with Cardiovascular (open heart) surgeries... Do you have a different policy for transfusing CV patients vs normal surgery patients. This includes triggers (HGB, PLT, etc), minimal units of plts on hand, etc. Any information would be helpful. We have recently started CV surgeries, and currently Doctors are unchecked. We essentially musth thaw, XM, and tag whatever they request. This is resulting in increased waste. A large increase. Of course they are using the fact that they are CV and the surgeries are high risk as the reason we cannot have transfusion triggers. Any ideas, strategies, or anecdotes would be helpful.
