title: Blood management.
abstract: Blood management is a system-based comprehensive approach that uses evidence-based medicine to facilitate an environment to encourage an appropriate use of blood products in the hospital setting. The ultimate goal of a blood-management program is to improve patient outcomes by integrating all available techniques to ensure safety, availability, and appropriate allocation of blood products. It is a patient-centered, multidisciplinary, multimodal, planned approach to the management of patients and blood products.
authors.affiliation: Division of Hospital Medicine, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT, USA. drajaykumar@gmail.com
authors.forename: Ajay
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: Moises
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Auron
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ereth
mesh_terms: D000740:Anemia / Q000628:therapy; D001803:Blood Transfusion; D003625:Data Collection; D004921:Erythropoietin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D007501:Iron / Q000008:administration & dosage; D011300:Preoperative Care; D013916:Thrombelastography
chemical_list: D004921:Erythropoietin; D007501:Iron