by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. Recent work from the Raleigh Orthopaedic Clinic, Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, OrthoArizona, and the FOCOS Hospital in Ghana has pitted postoperative blood salvage and autotransfusion against traditional closed suction drainage to see which one is superior in reducing the rate of homologous blood transfusions in adult …