Bulletin USAMV-CN, 64/2007 (1-2).

DIFFERENT ASPECTS AND THERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUE OF

HEMOTRANSFUSION OF DOGS AT THE VETERINARIAN CLINICAL
HOSPITAL IN CLUJ-NAPOCA
Ognean L., C. Muresan, Oana Ratusca, M.Mircean, Cristina Cernea

University of Agricultural Scince and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Veterinary

Medicine, lognean@yahoo.com

Key words: blood transfusion techniques, donors, compatibility, blood

SUMMARY

The blood transfusion in dogs recorded remarkable progress lately, even though the
transfusion therapy with animal blood is still hard to access. The sustained efforts
of researchers and clinical practitioners from U.S.A. (Lucas et. all., 2004), Europe (Waldrop
et. all., 2005) and Japan (Ejima et. all., 2004), made it possible for some blood transfusion
centers and blood banks for dogs to be constructed.
This research paper shows the preoccupations and the realizations of the Physiology
Department and the Clinical Hospital of Cluj-Napoca Veterinary Faculty regarding the
initiation of blood Transfusion in dogs in Transylvania.
There were involved mainly dogs that suffered different accidents and were close to
going into or were already in hypovolemic shock (n=9). The steps of the procedure were:
identifying the donors and their supervision; establishing the optimal time for a blood
transfusion therapy; verifying the blood type compatibility based on SHIGHETA method and
kits; collecting the blood in glass recipients or bags containing CDP A1 anticoagulant;
performing the blood transfusion using the glass recipient and the plastic bags technique;
posttransfusional supervision.
Out of the 9 case we treated, eight were recuperated; the post transfusion average rate
raise was of: 2.44% for the Ht; 9.77g/dcl for Hb and 0.43 mil./mm3 for RBC.
The loss of one patient that underwent urgent blood transfusion without verifying the
compatibility was due to an immediate post transfusional reaction with massive intravascular
hemolysis.
The results show that the two methods used by us to obtain, conserve and use in blood
transfusion of the blood maybe introduced and extended to private veterinary clinic practice
of Romania, mainly because the materials needed are common and the price is also
convenient.

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