Thank you for joining me to today for the @SSMHealthSTL Pediatric Education Webinar Series where we discussed the topic of 🩸👶🏾Pediatric Patient Blood Management.
From our rural hospitals to large academic ones, together let's optimize pediatric & neonatal care.
👇🏽 #Blooducation
Coming out of #WorldBloodDonorDay, it was perfect timing to discuss this topic as we celebrate our incredible blood donors while bringing awareness of the need to collect and transfuse safe blood to our patients, many which are so 🖐️🏽tiny, fitting within the palm of our hand.
💎Blood is a precious resource.
⚖️Blood transfusions have risks.
"Transfusing the right product, in the right dose, to the right patient, at the right time" is the fundamental concept of Patient Blood Management.
How do we apply these concepts within the pediatric setting?
🏃🏽♀️To get started, recruit hospital champions on a multidisciplinary level (clinical + administrative) to develop consensus goals.
Develop evidence based guidelines to establish hospital policy.
Monitor adherence.
Audit, audit, audit.
Did you accomplish a successful intervention?
Consider many strategies:
1) Blood conservation (reducing blood draws)
2) Restrictive transfusions (less is more)
3) Personalize transfusion/optimize coagulation
4) Autologous blood therapies (Bloodless medicine)
Need additional resources to develop and implement Patient Blood Management Programs, please check out @bloodmgmt phenomenal online publications:
sabm.org/publications/
Make sure to review these fantastic @aabb Patient Blood Management🧰 toolbox resources 👉🏽🩸aabb.org/news-resources…
Also, I highly recommend this outstanding Transfusion Medicine Reviews article by @ruchika_goel1, @cushing_melissa & @AaronTobian 👉🏽Pediatric Patient Blood Management Programs: Not Just Transfusing Little Adults sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
⁉️ Do you have experience developing Pediatric Patient Blood Management programs at your institution?
What areas have you focused on?
🙏🏽Thanks for you providing your insights below!
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