Marco Previsdomini, Jacopo Colombo, Bernard Cerutti, Bernhard Gerber, Axel Hofmann, Alessandro F Chiesa, Andrea Saporito, Davide La Regina, Stefano Cafarotti, Miriam Patella, Andreas Perren
BACKGROUND: Patient blood management (PBM) promotes the routine detection and treatment of anaemia before surgery, optimising the management of bleeding disorders, thus minimising iatrogenic blood loss and pre-empting allogeneic blood utilisation. PBM programmes have expanded from the elective surgical setting to nonsurgical patients, including those in intensive care units (ICUs), but their dissemination in a whole country is unknown. METHODS: We performed a cross-sectional, anonymous survey (10 October 2018 to 13 March 2019) of all ordinary medical members of the Swiss Society of Intensive Care Medicine and the registered ICU nurses from the 77 certified adult Swiss ICUs...
May 23, 2022: Swiss Medical Weekly