Patient blood management in India - Review of current practices and feasibility of applying appropriate standard of care guidelines. A position paper by an interdisciplinary expert group

Ajay Gandhi, Klaus Görlinger, Sukesh C Nair, Poonam M Kapoor, Anjan Trikha, Yatin Mehta, Anil Handoo, Anil Karlekar, Jyoti Kotwal, Joseph John, Shashikant Apte, Vijay Vohra, Gajendra Gupta, Aseem K Tiwari, Anjali Rani, Shweta A SinghJournal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology 2021 37(1):3-13In a developing country like India, with limited resources and access to healthcare facilities, dealing with massive hemorrhage is a major challenge. This challenge gets compounded by pre-existing anemia, hemostatic disorders, and logistic issues of timely transfer of such patients from peripheral hospitals to centers with adequate resources and management expertise. Despite the awareness amongst healthcare providers regarding management modalities of bleeding patients, no uniform Patient Blood Management (PBM) or perioperative bleeding management protocols have been implemented in India, yet. In light of this, an interdisciplinary expert group came together, comprising of experts working in transfusion medicine, hematology, obstetrics, anesthesiology and intensive care, to review current practices in management of bleeding in Indian healthcare institutions and evaluating the feasibility of implementing uniform PBM guidelines. The specific intent was to perform a gap analysis between the ideal and the current status in terms of practices and resources. The expert group identified interdisciplinary education in PBM and bleeding management, bleeding history, viscoelastic and...
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