Patient Blood Management is not about blood transfusion: it is about patients' outcomes

Affiliations

• ¹ Interdisciplinary Task Force for Clinical Haemotherapy (IAKH), Marburg, Germany.
• ² Network for the Advancement of Patient Blood Management, Haemostasis and Thrombosis (NATA), Paris, France.
• ³ Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, United States of America.
• ⁴ TeamHealth Research Institute, West Palm Beach, FL, United States of America.
• ⁵ Department of Anaesthesiology, Division of Cardiac Anaesthesia, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ⁶ Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, University of Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ⁷ Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada.