Research progress of perioperative anemia management in adult patients undergoing cardiac surgery

Abstract

Anemia often occurs in patients undergoing cardiac surgery, which increases the incidence and related risks of blood transfusion together with surgical bleeding.Both anemia and transfusion were associated with poor prognosis and increased mortality.Current practice guidelines generally recommend the implementation of patient blood management (PBM), which relies on anemia management and restrictive transfusion to reduce perioperative blood loss and transfusion rate, and improve the prognosis of patients.This article reviews recent research progress of anemia management and blood transfusion in adult patients undergoing cardiac surgery, in order to provide basis for the practice of PBM in cardiac surgery patients in the future.

Keywords

• anemia
• transfusion strategy
• cardiac surgery
• pbm