• Curr Opin Anaesthesiol · Apr 2023

    Review

    Is a Patient Blood Management programme economically reasonable?

    • Lotta Hof, Suma Choorapoikayil, Patrick Meybohm, and Kai Zacharowski.
    • Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt.
    • Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2023 Apr 1; 36 (2): 228233228-233.

    Purpose Of ReviewThe value of healthcare is defined as the achieved health outcome in relation to the incurred costs. Patient Blood Management (PBM) is a multidisciplinary, evidence-based and patient-centred concept to optimize the patients' red blood cell mass, minimize blood loss and bleeding and to secure the physiological reserve, including the promotion of evidence-based transfusion strategies. This review describes the healthcare value and the cost effectiveness of single PBM measures as well as the implementation of comprehensive PBM programmes.Recent FindingsOverall, measures improving surgical outcome and reducing hospital length of stay, such as intravenous iron supplementation in iron deficient anaemic patients, the use of antifibrinolytic agents for the treatment of bleeding, the use of cell salvage and adherence to an evidence-based transfusion strategy, are associated with cost savings.SummaryAlthough several single PBM measures have been shown to be effective and cost-efficient, it remains challenging to compare the results among differing healthcare systems.Copyright © 2022 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.

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