Lepirudin as an anticoagulant for intraoperative autotransfusion is effectively eliminated using the cell saver 5 device in the automatic mode with 1000 ml saline as washing solution. A clinically relevant disturbance of coagulation is not to be expected, even if the highest concentration of lepirudin anticoagulant solution investigated in this study is used.
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