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AAGBI guidelines: the use of blood components and their alternatives 2016
Author(s) -
Klein A. A.,
Arnold P.,
Bingham R. M.,
Brohi K.,
Clark R.,
Collis R.,
Gill R.,
McSporran W.,
Moor P.,
Rao Baikady R.,
Richards T.,
Shinde S.,
Stanworth S.,
Walsh T. S.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1111/anae.13489
Subject(s) - medicine , intensive care medicine , blood component , blood transfusion , blood management , medical emergency , surgery
Summary Blood transfusion can be life‐saving. Anaesthetists regularly request and administer blood components to their patients. All anaesthetists must be familiar with indications and appropriate use of blood and blood components and their alternatives, but close liaison with haematology specialists and their local blood sciences laboratory is encouraged. Considerable changes in approaches to optimal use of blood components, together with the use of alternative products, have become apparent over the past decade, leading to a need to update previous guidelines and adapt them for the use of anaesthetists working throughout the hospital system.