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Bloodless surgery

Bloodless surgery is a phrase that was popularized at the beginning of the 20th century by the practice of an internationally famous orthopedic surgeon, Adolf Lorenz, who was known as "the bloodless surgeon of Vienna". This expression reflected Lorenz's methods for treating patients with noninvasive techniques. His medical practice was a consequence of his severe allergy to carbolic acid routinely used in operating rooms of the era. His condition forced him to become a "dry surgeon".

Contemporary usage of the term bloodless surgery refers to both invasive and noninvasive medical techniques and protocols, and the phrase itself is somewhat confusing. The expression does not mean " surgery that makes no use of blood or blood transfusion". Rather, it refers to surgery performed without transfusion of allogeneic blood. Champions of bloodless surgery do, however, transfuse products made from allogeneic blood and they also make use of pre-donated blood for autologous transfusion. Interest in bloodless surgery has arisen for several reasons. Jehovah's Witnesses reject blood transfusions on religious grounds; others may be concerned about bloodborne diseases, such as hepatitis and AIDS.

Usage examples of "bloodless surgery".

Actually, it looked as if the brain of Joe X were taken from his skull in a weird bit of bloodless surgery, and lowered carefully into a huge transparent jar of some colorless liquid where, I knew, it continued to live!