gms | German Medical Science

Objective: The aim of this retrospective study is to document the positive effect of intraoperative Quixil® application on overall blood loss after TKA.

Methods: All patients needed a TKA for classical osteoarthritis and surgery was performed by the same surgeon in a standard technique using a tourniquet in all cases. In group one, 70 patients benefited from a classical postoperative auto transfusion and in group two 51 patients were treated with Quixil® application only, before wound closing. Both groups were age and sex matched. We compared the intraoperative blood loss, the difference between pre-and postoperative haemoglobin, the blood transfusion rate, the complication rate and the length of the hospitalisation.

Results and conclusion: We could show that the use of Quixil® significantly decreased the difference between pre- and postoperative haemoglobin value.

The blood transfusion rate was decreased as well as the length of the hospitalisation stay but these results were not statistically significant, the number of patients turned out to be too small

The use of Quixil® in TKA leads to reduction of the overall blood loss,decreases the need for allogeneic blood transfusion.

It seems to shorten the length of the hospitalisation and to accelerate the overall functional recovery.

We observed no complication related to Quixil® and continue to use it routinely in TKA.