Clinical Updates in Transfusion Medicine and Patient Blood Management
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Hematology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 May 2026) | Viewed by 935
Special Issue Editors
Interests: anaemia; iron deficiency; intravenous iron; blood transfusion; patient blood management
Interests: anaemia; blood transfusion; hemovigilance, blood components; patient blood management
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Dear Colleagues,
Over the last two decades, we have seen an increasing implementation of patient blood management (PBM) programs, endorsed by multiple major healthcare institutions and organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO). These PBM programs include a set of clinical practice strategies based on the concept of three main pillars: optimizing the patient’s own blood volume, minimizing blood loss, and improving the patient’s physiological tolerance for anemia, thereby avoiding unnecessary blood transfusions. Their implementation has led to a paradigm shift in the use of blood components, with a patient-centered approach designed to improve health outcomes through the improvement and care of their own blood.
For this Special Issue, we invite the submission of original research or review articles addressing various aspects of PBM. Authors are encouraged to contribute articles that evaluate the outcomes or benefits of implementing PBM programs as a whole, or some of their components specifically, in the routine scenario of perisurgical patients, in other scenarios such as in medical patients or obstetric patients, or in individuals of different age groups or with different associated characteristics. Likewise, we invite proposals related to transfusion medicine, both in terms of the evolution of its use and the evaluation of its adverse effects and hemovigilance.
We are looking forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Carlos Jerico
Dr. José Antonio García-Erce
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- anaemia
- bleeding
- blood transfusion
- patient blood management
- transfusion medicine
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