Bloodless surgery is a comprehensive and systematic perioperative treatment approach in order to avoid allogeneic transfusion for surgery，improve patient prognosis，and relieve blood shortage. Bloodless heart surgery indicates some perioperative strategies to avoid allogeneic transfusion and improve clinical outcomes，which involves participation of cardiac surgeons and other professionals during cardiac surgery. For years，many cardiac surgeons have utilized several blood management and conservation techniques during open heart surgery to avoid allogeneic transfusion. Research results from major medical centers indicate that bloodless heart surgery can shorten postoperative recovery period and improve patientprognosis. In this review，we describe basic theory and systematic methods of bloodless surgery，and summarize applicationprogress of bloodless heart surgery and current status in China.
Objective To analyze the outcome of arterial switch operation （ASO） for surgical repair of complete transposition of the great arteries （TGA）, and to investigate the risk factors influencing the mortality of ASO. Methods The clinical data of patients suffered from TGA and treated with ASO from the January 2003 to December 2004, and the clinical records in hospital including eehoeardiogram and operation record were collected. The clinical data were analyzed by chi-squared test and logistic muhivariable regression analysis, including the age undergone operation, body weight, diagnosis, anatomic type of coronary artery, cardiopulmonary bypass time, aortic crossclamping time, circulation arrest time, assisted respiration time after operation, the delayed closure of sternum and so on. The risk factors influencing the early mortality of the ASO were analyzed. Results Sixty seven patients were operated with ASO, five patients died during the peri-operative period. The outcome of univariate analysis indicated that risk factors influencing the mortality of ASO included： age（P=0. 004）, body weight （P=0. 042）, anatomic type of coronary artery （P= 0. 006） and extracorporeal circulation time （P= 0. 048）, the length of the CICU stay（P= 0. 004） and the hospital stay（P=0. 007） after operation in the TGA/VSD patients were longer than those in TGA/ IVS patients. The logistic muhivariable regression analysis indicated that the age at operation （P= 0. 012）, coronary arteries anomaly （P = 0.001 ）and the longer cardiopulmonary bypass time （P = 0. 002） were correlated with the increase of death rate. Conclusion It could be good results for TGA patients who was repaired with ASO. The age at operation, the coronary arteries anomaly and the longer cardiopulmonary bypass time are the risk factors influencing the mortality.