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Bloodless Medicine

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Largo Medical Center is committed to meeting the special and personal needs of all patients. Bloodless transfusions are available to patients who, for religious or personal reasons, wish to avoid the use of blood transfusions during surgery.

Why Choose Us?

  • Our medical and surgical professionals use a variety of blood conserving technologies
  • Our surgeons have successfully performed surgery using bloodless procedures without the use of a donor blood
  • Largo Medical Center is one of few hospitals in the area to offer a comprehensive bloodless alternative during surgery

Programs and Services

Largo Medical Center offers an advanced way of performing surgery without transfusions, using progressive techniques before, during and after surgery to minimize blood loss. This approach allows physicians to care for patients without using donor blood because an ample supply of the patient’s own blood is retained.

Conditions We Treat

Largo Medical Center’s bloodless procedures apply to a variety of medical conditions and within many medical and surgical specialties, including:

  • Anesthesia
  • Cancer (oncology) 
  • Cardiology (including open-heart surgery) 
  • Gastroenterology 
  • General surgery 
  • Neurosurgery 
  • Orthopaedic surgery  
  • Thoracic surgery 
  • Urology
  • Vascular surgery

Our Team

A team of highly skilled surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, and other health care professionals use forward-thinking techniques in blood conservation methods to care for individuals requesting bloodless medical treatment. Patients can expect to receive assistance and support before and after surgery.

For More Information

To contact Largo Medical Center’s Bloodless Medicine Department please call (727) 587-7557.

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