Bloodless Medicine and Surgery/Transfusion Alternatives Center (TAC)

Saint Francis Hospital is the first in the region to offer a comprehensive Blood Conservation Program, which provides patients with an alternative to transfusion, and helps to identify and treat anemia before surgery. Through a multidisciplinary approach, physicians and nurses collaborate to support and educate our physicians and community. As a result, the patients surgical and medical experiences and overall health outcomes are enhanced.

• Anesthetic techniques: controlled hypotension, regional anesthesia
• Cell Savers (salvage): with special circuits for Jehovah’s Witnesses
• Chemical hemostatic agents
• Surgical hemostatic tools
• Interventional radiologic techniques
• Non-blood volume expanders
• Pulse oximetry to measure oxygen in your blood
• Synthetic recombinant drug technologies

Blood Conservation Program/Transfusion Alternatives Center