Key points in reducing transfusion requirements in perioperative period

Abstract

Surgical intervention can lead to blood loss either through perioperative complications, or through disease severity until surgery. For this reason, mastering the main strategies to improve surgical patients’ haematological status, to reduce transfusion rate, and to correct haemoglobin level represent the state of art in surgical patient management. In the last period, due to COVID-19 pandemic and the blood shortage crisis across hospitals, applying principles meant to reduce blood loss, and therefore the rate of blood transfusion, have become even more important.

Keywords

• bleeding
• surgery
• anemia
• transfusion
• perioperative period