Cardiac surgery is associated with perioperative blood loss and a high risk of allogeneic
blood transfusion. Patient blood management (PBM) in cardiac surgery contributes to the …

Bleeding after cardiac surgery is a common and serious complication leading to transfusion
of multiple blood products and resulting in increased morbidity and mortality. Despite the …

Background The effect of a restrictive versus liberal red-cell transfusion strategy on clinical
outcomes in patients undergoing cardiac surgery remains unclear. Methods In this …

Document Reviewers: Moritz WV Wyler von Ballmoos (USA), Mate Petricevic (Croatia), Arie
Pieter Kappetein (Netherlands), Miguel Sousa-Uva (Portugal), Georg Trummer (Germany) …

Background Whether a restrictive threshold for hemoglobin level in red-cell transfusions, as
compared with a liberal threshold, reduces postoperative morbidity and health care costs …

Background Preoperative anaemia is associated with adverse outcomes after cardiac
surgery but outcomes after non-cardiac surgery are not well established. We aimed to …

Background Retrospective studies suggest that preoperative anaemia is associated with
poor outcomes after surgery. The objective of this study was to describe mortality rates and …

Background We reported previously that, in patients undergoing cardiac surgery who were
at moderate-to-high risk for death, a restrictive transfusion strategy was noninferior to a …

The aims of severe perioperative bleeding management are three-fold. First, preoperative
identification by anamesis and laboratory testing of those patients for whom the …

A systematic search was conducted to determine the characteristics of perioperative anemia,
its association with clinical outcomes, and the effects of patient blood management …