Perioperative Patient Blood Management
A special issue of Surgeries (ISSN 2673-4095).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2024 | Viewed by 24534
Special Issue Editor
Interests: perioperative bleeding; perioperative thromboprophylaxis; patient blood management; red cell deformability; microparticles; glycocalyx shedding; perioperative anxiety; perioperative quality of life; perioperative telemedicine
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
While allogeneic blood transfusions are generally very safe and have saved millions of lives, they carry a small risk of serious side effects. Transfusion can trigger an immune response to the donated blood. The severity of this response can range from mild to life-threatening, with an increased risk of death even many years after allogeneic transfusion. These risks can be lessened using patient blood management (PBM), a series of evidence-based interventions that seek to minimize blood loss, prevent anemia, and reduce the need for allogeneic transfusion before, during, and after major surgery. If PBM is successfully implemented, it can improve the outcome for an individual patient. At the same time, PBM can help to address another important concern: shortages of donated blood. The use of PBM can help to reduce the demand for donor blood, ensuring that supplies are available for those patients most in need. Finally, PBM can help to reduce healthcare costs by minimizing the costs for treating complications arising from major surgery.
The uptake of perioperative PBM is spreading out worldwide. The speed of implementation, however, is slow, and potential win-win-win situations for patients, for doctors’ therapeutic outcomes, for healthcare systems are not being put into effect. Traditions, historical reasons, and misconceptions among doctors, patients, and societies may be stumbling blocks. PBM can best be promoted through knowledge transfer to all stakeholders, by providing resources and infrastructures, carefully checking outcome parameters and quality indicators, and increasing the body of evidence for PBM.
The aim of our Special Issue in Surgeries is to summarize experiences and research trends in perioperative PBM. Experts in the field are warmly encouraged to submit manuscripts before September 2021.
Prof. Dr. Sibylle Kietaibl
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- patient blood management
- perioperative anemia
- perioperative bleeding
- perioperative transfusion
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Tentative Title: The benefit of using intraoperative cell salvage and tranexamic acid in patients with total knee arthroplasty
Author: Dr. Svetislav Matic
Tentative Title: Clinical impact of preoperative anemia in patients undergoing peripheral vascular interventions: A systematic review
Author: Dr. Rafael M. Linhares