Patient Blood Management

Conserve patient blood in line with clinical best practice

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The imperative of protecting blood

PBM is a comprehensive approach to protecting and managing patient blood. While there is no consensus definition of PBM, the practice centers around three key pillars namely, optimizing patients’ blood volume and red blood cell mass, minimizing blood loss and the appropriate management of anemia.

PBM adds value to all stakeholders including patients, healthcare professionals and institutions and aims to reduce an overreliance on transfusions. Radiometer is a proud advocate of PBM. We aspire to strengthen informed decision-making in critical care and reduce overall healthcare expenditures.

Read on for more about our products and resources that support its implementation within your practice.

Reframing standards of care

Patient Blood Management (PBM) is a person-centered, evidence-based model of care that prioritizes safety while aiming to improve patient outcomes.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has called PBM an “ethical imperative” and suggested the practice be incorporated as a routine part of clinical care. [1]

1. WHO Policy Brief: The urgent need to implement patient blood management

Hemoglobin results

Hemoglobin results are a factor in pre- and post-operative hemoglobin anemia management and are a primary indicator of the need for red blood cell transfusions (RBCT).

Despite their (often underestimated) expense and associated risks, RBCT are one of the most overused procedures in clinical practice.

Automatic mixing

Automatic mixing is a unique way of mixing blood gas samples that is made possible by combining ABL blood gas analyzers and safePICO syringes.

Automatic mixing supports the preservation of patients’ own blood and helps to minimize unnecessary testing related to preanalytical errors.

In helping clinicians achieve more accurate hemoglobin results, automatic mixing can support clinically accurate decision making and help ensure timely treatment in line with PBM standards.

Automatic mixing:

Consistently produces a high quality of homogenization
Does not cause hemolysis
Is exclusive to Radiometer

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Take less, without compromise

Radiometer offers blood gas syringes and capillary tubes with distinct features to minimize blood loss.

Our blood collection devices are designed to help you minimize blood loss. Radiometer syringes have labels indicating the minimum amount of blood required to measure a full panel of results on ABL blood gas analyzers. Our capillary tubes have been designed with neonates in mind; requiring lower blood sample volumes to reduce the risk of anemia in vulnerable patients as well as the effects of blood volume reduction.

All Radiometer blood collection devices have features designed to reduce the risk of preanalytical errors