While Patient Blood Management (PBM) is becoming a new standard worldwide with evidence-based and expert consensus guidelines to promote the three PBM pillars, measuring the performance of these efforts remains […]
This is a retrospective report of 10 years of obstetrical cell salvage use in a single hospital. The authors report on 1170 patients who had a median of 231 mL of blood […]
This systematic review and meta-analysis focused on the implementation of a comprehensive PBM approach. Studies included had to address at least one recognised PBM modality per pillar. Data for 235,779 surgical […]
There is growing evidence that patient blood management (PBM) is becoming “standard of care” in major surgery associated with high blood loss, particularly in cardiac surgery. These guidelines are the […]
This before-and-after study confirms that a standardised intraoperative blood conservation programme including expanded use of cell salvage, extensive adoption of acute isovolemic haemodilution and routine use of retrograde autologous priming […]
“Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are the de facto standard for answering clinical questions, delivering the highest grade of evidence available.” What sounds logical at first sight for many scientific problems […]
How to cook a patient blood management programme! In this ‘position paper’, a group of well-known PBM experts offers us a how-to guide for those looking to implement PBM programmes. […]
This meta-analysis, which includes 29 randomised controlled trials for a total of 2439 patients, evaluates the effectiveness of acute normovolemic haemodilution (ANH) to reduce the number of allogeneic red blood cell (RBC) […]
Children undergoing cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) are at high risk of being exposed to relatively large volumes of allogeneic blood products. If blood transfusion can be life-saving in […]
This retrospective review confirms that the use of cell salvage intraoperatively is safe, with a rate of patient-related adverse event varying between 0 and 0.006%. Although this very low incidence […]
In the absence of large randomised trials, meta-analyses are a useful tool to assess whether a technique is clinically beneficial. This meta-analysis by Meybohm et al. provides further support to […]
This article gives the results of an observational study that used a historical cohort of patients as a control group. This of course can cause a myriad of confounding issues. […]
Gross et al. compared transfusion and clinical data between the period prior to implementing patient blood management (PBM) (2006–2007) and after implementation of a PBM programme (2007–2012). The study suffers […]
These Practice Guidelines update “Practice Guidelines for Perioperative Blood Transfusion and Adjuvant Therapies: An Updated Report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Perioperative Blood Transfusion and Adjuvant […]
Teeztmann et al. conducted a randomised controlled study where 164 patients received either autologous salvaged blood collected using the Sangvia™ Blood Salvage System or allogeneic red cell concentrates if transfusion was […]
NATA: Network for the advancement of Patient Blood Management, Haemostasis and Thrombosis
MISSION: Providing a multidisciplinary forum for dialogue between haematologists, transfusion medicine specialists, anaesthesiologists, intensive care and emergency physicians, surgeons, perfusionists, nurses, biomedical scientists and ther heathcare professionals.
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