Patient Blood Management in the Intensive Care Unit

Patient Blood Management underscores a fundamental shift from a product-centered approach to a patient-centric approach through timely application of evidence-based medical and surgical concepts designed to maintain hemoglobin concentration, optimize hemostasis, and minimize blood loss in an effort to improve patient outcome. In this concept, allogeneic blood transfusion is not viewed as the treatment of default for anemic patients, but one among many treatment modalities that should be weighed based on its merits – potentials risks and benefits – for the individual patient in the context of other alternatives.
Source: Transfusion Medicine Reviews - Category: Hematology Authors: Source Type: research