Patient Blood Management (PBM) is a set of medical practices designed to optimise the care of patients who might need a blood transfusion. Patient blood...
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Haemovigilance Officer, Transfusion Safety Officer, Transfusion Nurse, Patient Blood Management (PBM) Practitioner, and PBM Nurse. The role of the TP has a long...
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transfusion-transmitted diseases, management and monitoring of clinical transfusion practices, patient blood management, therapeutic apheresis, stem cell...
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scientific misunderstanding, many patients died because of incompatible blood transferred to them. Historically, red blood cell transfusion was considered...
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(May 2017). "Encouraging single-unit transfusions: a superior patient blood management strategy?". Transfusion. 57 (5): 1107–1108. doi:10.1111/trf.14083...
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Butwick, AJ (2017). "National and international guidelines for patient blood management in obstetrics: a qualitative review". Anesth Analg. 124 (1): 216–32...
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The main goal of diabetes management is to keep blood glucose (BG) levels as normal as possible. If diabetes is not well controlled, further challenges...
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Platelet transfusion (category Blood products)
on 2016-01-16. Retrieved 2016-01-21. "Patient Blood Management Guidelines | National Blood Authority". www.blood.gov.au. Archived from the original on...
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Hematemesis (redirect from Vomiting blood)
amount of blood loss. Investigations include endoscopy. Any blood loss may be corrected with intravenous fluids and blood transfusions. Patients may need...
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diabetes management, a blood glucose test is typically performed by piercing the skin (typically, via fingerstick) to draw blood, then applying the blood to...
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condition, masked hypertension, where the patient has normal blood pressure during the examination but uncontrolled blood pressure outside the clinical setting...
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allogeneic blood (blood from other people) and they also make use of pre-donated blood for autologous transfusion (blood pre-donated by the patient). Interest...
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Patient management software (PMS) is referred to as software that is regulated as a medical device. It is software that is used to acquire medical information...
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g., a type O patient receives a type A bone marrow), the patient's blood type should eventually become the donor's type, as the patient's hematopoietic...
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ordering patterns. The Joint Commission offers accreditation in patient blood management in conjunction with AABB. To become accredited, participating hospitals...
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Polycythemia (category Red blood cell disorders)
changes) a relative increase in red blood cell count. If relative polycythemia is deemed unlikely because the patient has no other signs of hemoconcentration...
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Masimo (section Patient and consumer monitoring)
primarily manufactures patient monitoring devices and technologies, including non-invasive sensors using optical technology, patient management, and telehealth...
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Thromboelastography (category Blood tests)
(4 April 2019). "Thromboelastography-guided therapy improves patient blood management and certain clinical outcomes in elective cardiac and liver surgery...
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(>20 mm Hg drop in systolic blood pressure) to be considered POTS, though some patients with POTS do not show any changes in blood pressure upon standing....
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Bloodstream infection (redirect from Blood infection)
are infections of blood caused by blood-borne pathogens. The detection of microbes in the blood (most commonly accomplished by blood cultures) is always...
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Stewardship (category Natural resource management)
ethics Environmental stewardship Nuclear stockpile stewardship Patient blood management Product stewardship Safer Detergents Stewardship Initiative Stewardship...
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Prothrombin time (category Blood tests)
home testing is the evidence that patient self-testing with medical support and patient self-management (where patients adjust their own anticoagulant dose)...
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Hypoglycemia (redirect from Low Blood Sugar)
diagnostic fast, in which a patient undergoes an observed fast to cause a hypoglycemic episode, allowing for appropriate blood work to be drawn. In some...
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Thrombocytopenia (redirect from Low blood platelets)
coagulation disorder among intensive care patients and is seen in a fifth of medical patients and a third of surgical patients. A normal human platelet count ranges...
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Sepsis (redirect from Blood poisoning)
or blood flow. The presence of low blood pressure, high blood lactate, or low urine output may suggest poor blood flow. Septic shock is low blood pressure...
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which delivers insights and population management features and enables patients to upload data from their blood glucose meters. Glooko currently supports...
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Anemia (redirect from Tired blood)
English) is a blood disorder in which the blood has a reduced ability to carry oxygen. This can be due to a lower than normal number of red blood cells, a...
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Hematuria (redirect from Blood in the urine)
presence of blood or red blood cells in the urine. "Gross hematuria" occurs when urine appears red, brown, or tea-colored due to the presence of blood. Hematuria...
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Iron deficiency (category Red blood cell disorders)
Association of Blood Banks, archived from the original on 24 September 2014, retrieved 25 July 2014, which cites AABB (2011). Guidelines for Patient Blood Management...
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Pulse oximetry (redirect from Blood oxygen monitor)
disproportionately high blood flow relative to their size, in order to keep warm, but this will be lacking in hypothermic patients. Other convenient sites...
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