Patient Blood Management the "new" Norm(al) - Valentina Franco Uribe, Anesthesiologist CMC
Patient blood management is a patient-centered, systematic, evidence-based approach to improve patient outcomes by managing and preserving a patient’s blood while promoting patient safety and empowerment. It offers significantly improved outcomes for almost all medical and surgical patient populations, pregnant women, and individuals with micronutrient deficiencies, anemia, or bleeding. It holds enormous financial benefits for hospitals and payers, improves the performance of healthcare providers, and supports public authorities to improve population health. Due to the above, the World Health Organization (WHO) called for its 194 member states, in its recent Policy Brief of 2021, to act quickly and decidedly to adopt national PBM policies as the norm.
Valentina Franco Uribe
Anesthesiologist CMC
Coordinator of the Curacao Society of Patient Blood Management
Member of the SIAPBM (Iberoamerican Society of PBM), International Foundation of Patient Blood Management subsidiary