The Patient Blood Management (PBM) Guidelines: Companions provide supporting information aimed at improving knowledge and understanding of the PBM guidelines and how they can be used to achieve better patient care and outcomes. 

The Companions are set out with a PBM strategy or technique as a separate topic, generally one to two pages. If transfusion is clinically indicated, details of risks and benefits to support this process are also outlined in this document.

  1. Patient Blood Management
  2. Summary of PBM modules recommendations and practice points
  3. Identify, evaluate and manage anaemia
  4. Iron Therapy
  5. Erythropoiesis stimulating agents
  6. Preoperative autologous donation (PAD)
  7. Assess bleeding risk
  8. Cessation of medications affecting coagulation
  9. Antifibrinolytics
  10. Other medications which may minimise bleeding
  11. Preventing hypothermia
  12. Patient positioning
  13. Deliberate induced hypotension
  14. Acute Normovolaemic Haemodilution
  15. Surgical technique
  16. Anaesthetic technique
  17. Reduce iatrogenic blood loss
  18. Cell Salvage
  19. Point of care testing
  20. Clinical indications for red blood cell transfusion
  21. Transfusion risks and benefits
  22. Transfusion risks tables and Calman chart for explaining transfusion related risks to patients
  23. Single unit transfusion
  24. Restrictive transfusion strategy
  25. Clinical indications for platelets
  26. Clinical indications for fresh frozen plasma
  27. Clinical indications for cryoprecipitate and fibrinogen concentrate

Last updated: 27 Mar 2024