Incidence of Cell-Saver contamination during cardiopulmonary bypass

Risk Factors for the Development of Delayed Infections Following Posterior Spinal Fusion and Instrumentation in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Patients

“…Multiple studies, especially in the cardiothoracic literature, have attempted to correlate cell saver with infection and have been unable to find an association. 23,24 However, in a review of cell saver use in oncologic procedures, there was noted to be a 22% rate of microbiologic contamination in urologic and gynecologic procedures but not neurosurgical ones. 25 Although use of cell saver may be a reflection of increased blood loss in surgery, intraoperative blood loss was not found to be associated with delayed infection in our series.…”

Autotransfusion-bacterial contamination during hip arthroplasty and efficacy of cefuroxime prophylaxis: A randomized controlled study of 40 patients

“…One of the possible drawbacks of autologous blood transfusion is the risk of secondary contamination of the intra-and postoperatively salvaged blood (Blumenberg et al 1987, Ezzedine et al 1991, Lorentz et al 1991, Bauermann et al 1995. Several studies, however, have shown that postoperative infection rates were not increased after autologous blood transfusion (Schwieger et al 1989, Ezzedine et al 1991. Not even the salvage of blood contaminated with enteric content (Timberlake and McSwain 1988) or after bladder injury (Horst et al 1992) under emergency conditions, resulted in an increased infection rate.…”

Positive cultures from cardiopulmonary bypass: prevalence and relevance regarding postoperative infection

“…Positive blood cultures of transfused cell-saver blood have been identified [5]. Previous research, however, has clarified that cell saving, alone, does not contribute to the risk of postoperative infection [5,7]. Information from the literature on cultures taken from the CPB priming as well as CPB blood is scarce.…”

“…Cultures taken during CPB can be subdivided into one of the three following: preoperative cultures of the CPB priming fluid, cultures of whole blood taken during CPB, and cultures of cell-saving blood [5][6][7][8]. Positive blood cultures of transfused cell-saver blood have been identified [5].…”