Abstract
Patient blood management requires multi-modality and multidisciplinary collaboration to identify patients who are at increased risk of requiring blood transfusion and therefore decrease exposure to blood products. Transfusion is associated with poor postoperative outcomes, and guidelines exist to minimize transfusion requirements. This review highlights recent studies and efforts to apply patient blood management across disease processes and health care systems.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 266-270 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 1 2015 |
Keywords
- blood conservation
- patient blood management
- quality
- transfusion
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Surgery
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine