[HSF] Jehovah's witness - Collagen impregnated grafts

[Nasser F. Abou'Seada]

Hal: 
your experience and observations exactly matches mine. Horrible situation.
all suture lines bleeding ... remembering wrapping the native aorta around
the graft to prevent "percolation" of blood from the graft, ....  in vain
.... patient would die slowly in CSICU 

First time to assist in an AAA with a Hemashield graft, in Blackpool with
Mark E. Lambert .... 1989, was very surprised to find out that the needle
holes do not bleed anymore ... and that the replacement was as easy as
suturing the graft .... can not imagine doing such operations without such
grafts .... 

NFA

> From: Hgrmd at aol.com
> Prasanna,
>   Of course, I'm using Hemashield which is a preclotted graft.  I  don't
know
> of anyone in the U.S. that still use grafts that have to be clotted  as in
> the old days.  From residency, I remember watching a Bentall bleed to
death
> because the graft baked in albumin had lost its clotting.  God, that  was
> horrible sight watching the blood diffusely stream through the graft!   I
felt really
> sorry for my attending who had done the case.
> Hal