When shortages strike banking officials must scramble to fill the demand. Sometimes hospitals are asked to restrict or postpone surgical cases. All over the country hospitals are taking steps to drastically lower and in many cases eliminate blood use as they develop Transfusion Free or Bloodless Medicine and Surgery Programs. These programs deliver virtually every traditional medical service without blood transfusions. We don't just take blood out of the treatment arsenal.
Surgeons use the hemoglobin levels as a trigger point for transfusing blood components.
The lower the trigger point the less blood is used. While traditional treatment centers consider low blood supplies a dire emergency, Transfusion Free Medicine and Surgery Programs consider it just another day in surgery. While the blood banks are scrambling for donations, hospitals are doing their part by working to lower the amount of blood used. More and more hospitals are taking advantage of bloodless or transfusion-free medicine and surgery programs to accomplish this. For more information about Bloodless Medicine and Surgery you can contact BMSI .