Blood Manage Cuts Costs and Improves Patient Outcomes

WHY THE NEED FOR 300,000,000 EVIDENCE-BASED? BLOOD MANAGEMENTO PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES 5,000,000 patient chance of transfusion with hospital procedure stay INCREASE IN BLOO TRANSFUSIONS 140% PEOPLE RECEIVE BLOOD ANNUALLY 24,000,000 than Canada IN 10 YEARS 44% 15% BLOOD COMPONENTS than Europe TRANSFUSED ANNUALLY US PER CAPITA 16% 8% Blood use over 4 years UK SEPSISENEUMONIA MORBIDITYMORTALITY 50,000 AT RISK OF TACO (TRANSFUSION-ASSOCIATED CIRCULATORY OVERLOAD) STAY OP INFECTION HOSPITAL STAY PNEUM ONIA 500 MORTALITY INFECTION MORBIDITY SEPSIS AT RISK OF TRALI (TRANSFUSION-RELATED ACUTE LUNG INJURY) HOSPITAL STAY 2.5 EACH ADDITIONAL UNIT TRANSFUSED INCREASES RISK WHY GIVE2WHEN 1 WILLDO? AT RISK OF HIV FROM TRANSFUSION STRATEGIC www.BloodManagement.com HEALTHCARE GROUP LLC America's Blood Centers, http://www.americasblood.org/go.cfm?do=page.view&pid=12 American Red Cross, http://www.redcrossblood.org/learn-about-blood/blood-facts-and-statistics Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, http://www.cdc.gov/bloodsafety/basics.html Carson et. al, Red Blood Cell Transfusion: A Clinical Practice Guidelines, Ann Intern Med. 2012:157(1):49-58.