Feline Blood Transfusion
Effects of feline naturally occurring antibodies. These naturally occurring antibodies are responsible for potentially fatal cases of blood incompatibilities leading to acute hemolytic transfusion reactions and feline neonatal isoerythrolysis (Auer and Bell, 1981; Giger and Buecheler, 1991). Blood transfusion. Blood and blood component transfusions is an important routine medical procedure in small animal medicine especially in emergency cases (Fragio and Daza, 2013).
According to the article Feline Blood Transfusions: A pinker shade of pale by (Barfield and Adamantos, 2010), requirements for a feline blood donor include a healthy, normal body condition, indoor cat with an agreeable temperament for the benefit of easy handling and restraint.
The donor must be 5 kg in minimum as recommended by the authors and should not donate blood more often than once every 2 months. Cats weighing more than 4 kg can be used although fewer side effects should await larger donors. In addition, according to (Helm and Knottenbelt, 2011), ideally, the donor must not be brachycephalic, young to middle-aged (1 to 8 years old), have had no previous pregnancies and female donors should be spayed.
According to the article Feline Blood Transfusions: A pinker shade of pale by (Barfield and Adamantos, 2010), requirements for a feline blood donor include a healthy, normal body condition, indoor cat with an agreeable temperament for the benefit of easy handling and restraint.
The donor must be 5 kg in minimum as recommended by the authors and should not donate blood more often than once every 2 months. Cats weighing more than 4 kg can be used although fewer side effects should await larger donors. In addition, according to (Helm and Knottenbelt, 2011), ideally, the donor must not be brachycephalic, young to middle-aged (1 to 8 years old), have had no previous pregnancies and female donors should be spayed.