Effectiveness of Intraoperative Cell Salvage in Aseptic Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty.

Intraoperative cell salvage is an important measure of patient blood management but its effectiveness in patients undergoing revision total hip arthroplasty remains unclear. Over the last decade, we have used intraoperative cell salvage systematically in this group of patients. However, since the use of cell salvage has a cost and requires additional resources, we decided to retrospectively investigate its usefulness in this particular indication.