Patient Blood Management is not about blood transfusion: it is about patients' outcomes

Thomas Frietsch^{1

2}, Aryeh Shander^{3

4}, David Faraoni^{5

6}, Jean-Francois Hardy^{2

7}

Affiliations

¹ Interdisciplinary Task Force for Clinical Haemotherapy (IAKH), Marburg, Germany.
² Network for the Advancement of Patient Blood Management, Haemostasis and Thrombosis (NATA), Paris, France.
³ Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, United States of America.
⁴ TeamHealth Research Institute, West Palm Beach, FL, United States of America.
⁵ Department of Anaesthesiology, Division of Cardiac Anaesthesia, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁶ Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, University of Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁷ Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada.

Editorial

Thomas Frietsch et al. Blood Transfus. 2019 Sep.

. 2019 Sep;17(5):331-333.

doi: 10.2450/2019.0126-19. Epub 2019 Jul 18.

Thomas Frietsch^{1

2}, Aryeh Shander^{3

4}, David Faraoni^{5

6}, Jean-Francois Hardy^{2

7}

¹ Interdisciplinary Task Force for Clinical Haemotherapy (IAKH), Marburg, Germany.
² Network for the Advancement of Patient Blood Management, Haemostasis and Thrombosis (NATA), Paris, France.
³ Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, United States of America.
⁴ TeamHealth Research Institute, West Palm Beach, FL, United States of America.
⁵ Department of Anaesthesiology, Division of Cardiac Anaesthesia, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁶ Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, University of Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁷ Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada.

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Conflict of interest statement

The Authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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