Anticoagulation treatment has been revolutionised in the past few decades with the development of drugs that increasingly target individual components of the coagulation cascade. Yet the quest to find improved

Despite studies supporting a restrictive red cell transfusion strategy in many medical situations, a more liberal strategy is still widely used in patients who need extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), Alexander

According to the World Health Organisation, widespread implementation of patient blood management (PBM) programmes remains an urgent need.1 It is also important to evaluate how well they are working, says