Essential Role of Patient Blood Management in a Pandemic: A Call for Action.

摘要: The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a pandemic. Global health care now faces unprecedented challenges with widespread and rapid human-to-human transmission of SARS-CoV-2 high morbidity mortality COVID-19 worldwide. Across world, medical is hampered critical shortage not only hand sanitizers, personal protective equipment, ventilators, hospital beds, but also impediments to blood supply. Blood donation centers in many areas around globe have mostly closed. Donors, practicing social distancing, some either illness or undergoing self-quarantine, are quickly diminishing. Drastic public initiatives focused on containment "flattening curve" while invaluable resources being depleted. In countries, point been reached at which demand for such resources, including donor blood, outstrips Questions as safety persist. Although it does appear very likely that virus can be transmitted through allogeneic transfusion, this still remains fully determined. As options dwindle, we must enact regional national plans worldwide more vitally disseminate knowledge immediately implement patient management (PBM). PBM an evidence-based bundle optimize surgical outcomes clinically managing preserving patient's own blood. This multinational diverse group authors issue "Call Action" underscoring "The Essential Role Patient Management Pandemics" urging all stakeholders providers practical commonsense principles its multiprofessional multimodality approaches.