Building a patient blood management program in a large-volume tertiary hospital setting: Problems and solutions

Serdar Günaydın

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2020.19701

Serdar Günaydın¹, Spahn Donat R², Kanat Özışık¹, Aslı Demir³, Göktan Aşkın¹, Doğan Emre Sert¹, Hale Bozkurt⁴, Ali Şampiyon⁵, Dilek Kazancı⁶, Arnel Boke Kılıçlı⁷, Şeref Alp Küçüker¹, Ümit Kervan¹, Mehmet Ali Özatik¹

¹Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Ankara City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
²Institute of Anesthesiology, University and University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
³Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Ankara City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
⁴Blood Bank, Ankara City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
⁵Cardiovascular Perfusion Services, Ankara City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
⁶Intensive Care Unit, Ankara City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
⁷Department of Health Care Services, Nursing Unit, Ankara City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2020.19701

Successful implementation of a patient blood management program necessitates the collaboration of a strong organization and a multidisciplinary approach. We organized a meeting with broad participation in our center to establish a consensus for implementation of a specific patient blood management program. International and domestic experiences were shared, the importance of coordination and execution of different pillars in patient blood management were discussed, and the problems about the blood transfusion system were also investigated with the proposal for solutions. The data obtained from this meeting are presented to be a guide for similar large-volume tertiary hospitals for integration of a patient blood management protocol.

Keywords : Anemia-iron deficiency; blood preservation; blood transfusion; hemorrhage

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