Teknon, point of reference in medicine and surgery without blood

-Teknon organizes for the first time in Spain a week devoted entirely to medicine and surgery without blood directed to professionals and patients.

-The medicine without blood develops safer techniques and takes advantage of the resources of the patient.

-The rational use of blood medicine entails a reduction in the complications of transfusion and facilitates recovery of patients

Barcelona, November of 2011. Teknon Foundation organizes the week I of medicine and surgery without blood for patients and health professionals from 7 to 12 November. These days, celebrated for the first time in Spain, have been structured on the basis of the medical specialties and expected an attendance of more than 360 professionals, as well as the follow-up online through the videostreming the Centre itself has been enabled for the occasion.

Blood-saving techniques are generating in the collective health care provider and the population in general increasing interest, not only because of ideological or religious beliefs, but because we are dealing with a much-needed resource as little that depends on donations. In addition, these techniques, from Centro Médico Teknon all medical-surgical specialities and especially in the high complexity such as Oncology, cardiovascular surgery and Traumatology; They provide greater security to patients, preparing them before each intervention and in the case of need extra blood is used of the patient, thus decreasing potential complications.

For Dr. Xavier Soler, responsible for doctor of medicine and surgery without blood Teknon unit, the benefits of the rational use of blood are considerable as minimizes the risk of infections, eliminates the complications associated with transfusions and faster recovery for patients is and shorter hospital stay ”. And claims that we are not dealing with a new discipline, it is the natural evolution of the modern medicine applicable to all medical-surgical specialties that should enhance and ensure maximum patient safety ”.

The unit of medicine and surgery without blood of Centro Médico Teknon, with extensive experience and more than 2,500 patients treated, offers a modern, quality and very safe surgery free of the effects and potential risks of blood and its derivatives. A team of multidisciplinary, highly specialized in the use of techniques without blood, composed of surgeons, anaesthetists, intensivistas, Hematologists and nursing staff coordinated by a specialist doctor evaluates the personal needs of each patient and determines, for each case, the application of those medical and surgical techniques more efficient to reduce the consumption of bloodreduce the need for transfusions of donors and even carrying out surgery without blood.

Bloodless Surgery is to apply a variety of procedures to prevent blood loss and minimize or eliminate the transfusion. A set of strategies which applied so combined or in isolation prevents the use of blood and blood products. To achieve this objective, the unit of medicine and surgery without blood Teknon, equipped with the equipment and the latest technology necessary, follows three lines of action: to minimize losses, return blood from the patient through appropriate surgical and anaesthetic techniques and the use of pharmacological substances that stimulate the endogenous production of blood.

Since its inception, Centro Médico Teknon has treated patients who so required with blood-saving procedures. Given the importance and evolution of the techniques that directly reversed in the safety of patients, Teknon formalized a year ago the creation of the unity of bloodless medicine and surgery, becoming the only Center in Spain which deals with the surgery without blood from the multidisciplinary perspective and that applies to all mé specialtiesDICO-surgical.