Blood Management
Enhancing patient care by applying evidence-based strategies to make appropriate use of transfusion therapy and reduce patient exposure to blood transfusion.
Blood Management
The Blood Management Department at Swedish Medical Center provides key services to
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Reduce patient exposure to blood transfusion ("blood conservation")
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Achieve safe blood management practices
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Optimize blood utilization
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Reduce variations in transfusion practice
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Support a patient's decision to minimize or eliminate the use of blood or blood products
Among the many reasons blood management is on the forefront of health care today are
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Increased public demand for safe alternatives to blood transfusion therapy
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Growing numbers of patients who request medical services without the use of blood
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Advanced technology and pharmacological agents making bloodless medicine and surgery not only possible but preferable
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Decrease in national blood supply
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Escalating costs due to growing number of federally mandated tests to screen donated blood for disease