Practice Tips With Dr. Lichaa: Using a Transfusion Filter

In his latest practice tip, Dr. Hady Lichaa describes the use of a transfusion filter to return filtered blood to a patient through a central access point. This technique “is highly usable in situations where we pull large amounts of blood from patients and would like to give it back in a filtered fashion,” he notes.

Hady Lichaa, MD, FACC, FSCAI, FSVM, RPVI, is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine and an interventional cardiologist who specializes in complex coronary interventions. He is a DocWire News content partner and contributes interventional-related content several times per month.

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