Patient Blood Management (BPM)
What is PBM?听 PBM 鈥溾 improves patient outcomes by improving the patient鈥檚 medical and surgical management in ways that boost and conserve the patient鈥檚 own blood.
As a consequence of better management, patients usually require fewer transfusions of donated blood components thus avoiding transfusion-associated complications.
The National Blood Authority (NBA) is funding and managing the development of evidence-based, Patient Blood Management Guidelines.
A multidisciplinary team determines, with the patient, the specific management plan, which makes every reasonable endeavour to optimise the patient鈥檚 own blood volume, minimise blood loss, and optimise the patient鈥檚 physiological tolerance of anaemia.鈥 (National Blood Authority,
).
Pillars of听PBM:
1st Pillar - Optimisation of blood volume and red听cell mass
2nd Pillar - Minimise bleeding and blood loss
3rd Pillar -听Optimisation of the patient's tolerance of anaemia
NBA Patient Blood Management Guidelines
The NBA has many programs in place to help promote safe and appropriate use of blood and blood products. One of these is the
听2013-2017听has been developed to听reduce unnecessary wastage of blood and blood products.听A part of this strategy involves displaying the
听on fresh blood product labels.
RCH Patient Blood Management Guidelines听
Patient blood management in the surgical setting guideline (State wide guideline)
Anaemia guideline (State wide guideline)
Iron deficiency guideline (State wide guideline)
Guidelines
,听3rd Edition, January 2018. Australian and New Zealand Society of Blood Transfusion and Royal College of Nursing Australia.
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