Patient Blood Management -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Conflicts of Interest -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 PBM: A Concept to Improve Patient Safety and Outcome -- 1.2 Requirements of Modern Transfusion Medicine -- 1.3 Transfusion and Patient Outcomes -- 1.4 Outcomes after Platelet Transfusion -- 1.5 Use of Plasma in PBM-Effectiveness and Outcomes -- 1.6 Key Role of Benchmarking Processes in PBM -- 2 Practical Aspects of Preoperative Patient Management -- 2.1 Role of the Preanesthesia Assessment Clinic in Patient Blood Management -- 2.2 Role of the General Practitioner -- 2.3 Calculation of the Transfusion Probability -the Mercuriali Algorithm -- 2.4 Ordering Procedures for Blood Products -- 3 First Pillar of PBM-Optimization of the Red Blood Cell Volume -- 3.1 Definition, Diagnosis, and Consequences of Preoperative Anemia -- 3.2 Pros and Cons of Preoperative Anemia Treatment -- 4 Second Pillar of PBM-Minimization of Bleeding and Blood Loss -- 4.1 Reduction of Diagnostic and Interventional Blood Loss -- 4.2 Coagulation Management -- 4.3 Use of Allogeneic Blood Conservation Strategies -- 4.4 Surgical Technique and Minimally Invasive Surgery-Limitations and Prospects -- 4.5 Local and Systemic Promotion of Perioperative Hemostasis -- 5 Third Pillar of PBM-Harnessing and Optimization of the Patient's Physiological Tolerance to Anemia -- 5.1 Perioperative Optimization of the Anemia Tolerance -- 5.2 Determinants of the Decision to Transfuse Red Blood Cells -- 5.3 Functions of Circulating Blood Other Than Oxygen Transport -- 5.4 Management of Profound Anemia in Patients Refusing Red Blood Cell Transfusion -- 6 PBM in Surgical Settings -- 6.1 PBM in Cardiac Surgery -- 6.2 PBM in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery -- 6.3 PBM in Trauma Surgery -- 6.4 PBM in Gynecology -- 6.5 PBM in Orthopaedic Surgery.

6.6 PBM in Vascular Surgery -- 7 PBM in Nonsurgical Settings -- 7.1 Potential for PBM in Intensive Care Medicine -- 7.2 Potential for PBM in Oncology and Hematology -- 7.3 Potential for PBM in Cardiology -- 8 Practical Implementation of PBM and Outlook -- 8.1 PBM and Outcome -- 8.2 Establishment of PBM in Teaching and Practice -- 8.3 The Australian PBM Concept-a Success Story -- 8.4 Landmark Studies and Current Clinical Trials in the Field of PBM -- 9 Appendix -- 9.1 References -- Index.