Blood Conservation Guidelines: Provide Your Comments

Please review the following outline and provide your comments in the below text boxes.

Blood Conversation Guidelines Outline

1. Introduction
   1. Problem statement
   2. Objective
   3. Major changes/revisions
2. Methodology
3. Preoperative Interventions
   1. Risk assessment
   2. Preoperative Treatment of Anemia – Anemia Clinic, etc.
   3. Pharmaceutical agents (EPO, et)
   4. Management of anticoagulation
   5. Management of antiplatelet agents
   6. Consent Process for No-Blood patients
4. Intraoperative Interventions
   1. Surgical approach
   2. Pharmaceutical agents
   3. Perfusion interventions/blood salvage/ANH Guidelines
   4. Anesthesia interventions
   5. Surgical management/topical agents
   6. Intraoperative real time hemoglobin monitoring
   7. Point of care hemostasis monitoring
5. Postoperative Interventions
   1. Fluid management strategies
   2. Management of Post-Operative Bleeding
   3. Hgb/Hct transfusions triggers
   4. Pharmaceutical agents
   5. Management of anticoagulation
   6. Massive transfusion
   7. Blood salvage
6. Managing Blood Resources
   1. Enhancing use of guidelines
   2. Multidisciplinary teams – teams make better decisions than individuals
   3. Behavorial aspects that limit blood management practice improvement
   4. Measure and adjust constantly