Boy Undergoes "Bloodless" Heart Transplant

Between injuries from storms that ravaged the country this spring and the normal shortages that occur during the summer months, blood supplies in US are low. But some surgeons are helping to offset that demand in the operating room by performing what's known as "bloodless" surgery. The goal of this novel technique is to perform surgery without transfusing a single drop of donated blood. It's a concept that is growing in popularity, and was recently performed on 6 year old Andrew Craver - who became one of the youngest patients ever to receive a new heart, without any new blood.

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