'Fit to fly': overcoming barriers to preoperative haemoglobin optimization in surgical patients Video
BJA: British Journal of AnaesthesiaShow Notes
Patient blood management (PBM) is a multifaceted approach to reducing allogenic blood transfusion (ABT) in the surgical population. In this podcast Professor Manuel Munoz, a haematologist from Malaga in Spain, talks to us about the way in which a PBM
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