Hemodynamics, fluids & transfusion
Provision of peri‐operative patient blood management strategies in the UK : a national survey of practice
Authors' conclusion
Our findings show considerable heterogeneity in peri-operative patient blood management strategies and supporting infrastructure availability across the UK.
Study context
- Population
- UK hospitals (NHS Trusts and health boards) approached via Research and Audit Federation of Trainees networkshospitals responded of 143 approached
- Participants
- 123 participants
- Outcome
- Local practices of peri-operative PBM and infrastructure availability
Methodological detailsnational survey, online, pre-piloted, benchmarking standards, Survey conducted online between January and February 2023
- National survey
- Online
- Pre-piloted
- Benchmarking standards
- Survey conducted online between January and February 2023
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Peri-operative PBM practices and infrastructure
- No formal elective anaemia pathway
- 37/123 (30%)
- Oral iron once-daily dosing
- 41/85 (48%)
- Oral iron three times a day dosing
- 14/85 (16%)
- Ferric carboxymaltose most frequent IV iron preparation
- 61/113, 54%
- Policy for peri-operative TXA
- 49/122 (39%)
- TXA included in theatre safety briefings (sites performing major surgery routinely)
- 20/112 (18%)
- Point-of-care coagulation testing available
- 62/123 (50%)
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Provision of peri‐operative patient blood management strategies in the UK : a national survey of practice. Anaesthesia. Published 12 March 2025. doi:10.
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