Is there no such thing as a free lunch? With Patient Blood Management, maybe there is!

Abstract

PREVIEW

Modern therapeutic options in medicine typically come with a drawback: they are either costly or not suitable for everyone. However, over the past 20 years, Transfusion Medicine has evolved into Patient Blood Management (PBM), a treatment approach that not only improves patient outcomes but also reduces healthcare costs.

PBM is an evidence-based, patient-centered strategy designed to optimize and preserve a patient's own blood while enhancing safety and clinical outcomes. It focuses on three key principles: preventing anemia, minimizing blood loss, and reducing unnecessary transfusions¹. These elements are interdependent, bleeding leads to anemia, which in turn increases the need for transfusion; each factor is associated with higher mortality and increased healthcare costs. [ ... ]