The authors describe: "Clinical improvements in perioperative blood management can be achieved through the adoption of quality indicators and collective benchmarking. A comprehensive benchmarking process in blood management would provide participants data essential for continuous quality improvement initiatives.
Institutional blood management is considered a team sport. Successfull implementation involves a multidisciplinary approach involving key stakeholders and institutional support. Comprehensive and multisisciplinary blood management teams are associated with the highest levels of evidence in the literature. Physicians, nurses, perfusionists and support staff across the entire continuum of care are charged with adopting and enforcing transfusion algorithms, supported with the real-time clinical data and point of care testing. Developing a broad and engaged coalition across the medical center should not be underestimated ...
Cardiovascular perfusionists play an essential role in minimizing the potential risks of allogeneic exposure. Several interventions should be considered by the perfusion team to reduce excessive hemodilution, preserve red cell mass, and recover shed blood lost during surgery ..."
D.C. Fitzgerald, J.J. Sistino: Blood Management.
In: Rudolf J. Tschaut, Molly Dreher, Tami Rosenthal, Ashley Walczak (Eds.)
Extracorporeal Circulation in Theory and Practice