Patient Blood Management – tools, templates and resources

Resources

Preoperative assessment

• Patient blood management guidelines preoperative haemoglobin assessment and optimisation template – provides guidance for patients undergoing procedures in which substantial blood loss is anticipated including cardiac, major orthopaedic, vascular and general surgery. Patient Blood Management – How will this alter my preoperative assessment (external site)
• List of surgical procedures for preoperative anaemia (PDF 27KB)  
• Fit for surgery: managing iron deficiency anaemia – provides resources for General Practitioners managing patients undergoing planned surgery (external site)
• Iron product choice and dose calculation guide for adults - provides guidance for healthcare professionals in determine the appropriate formulation and dosage of iron replacement therapy for adult patients (external site)
• Preoperative bleeding risk assessment and intervention resource – provides guidance for healthcare professionals in assessing and managing the risk  of bleeding in the preoperative patient (external site)
• Preoperative anaemia identification, assessment and management case study – provides information for healthcare practitioners, health educators, health service managers and policy makers about preoperative anaemia screening (external site)

Intraoperative care and massive haemorrhage

• Guidance for the provision of intraoperative cell salvage - provides information for healthcare practitioners, health educators, health service managers and policy makers about intraoperative cell salvage (external site)
• Massive transfusion protocol template – provides guidance for health professionals in developing local massive transfusion protocols (external site)
• Point of care coagulation testing case study – provides an example of implementing a massive bleeding protocol supported by point of care coagulation testing to detect, manage and monitor critical bleeding in cardiac surgery patients (external site)
• Massive transfusion protocol clinical audit tool – provides a standards-based audit  tool which may assist in identifying gaps and measuring activity related to Massive Transfusion in a continuous quality cycle (external site)

Obstetrics, neonates and paediatrics

• Haemoglobin assessment and optimisation action plan and flowcharts – provides information to healthcare professionals on the detection , prevention, and management of anaemia in pregnancy and the postpartum period (external site)
• Maternity iron handout – provides a consumer  handout to guide the the appropriate formulation and dosage of iron replacement therapy for pregnant women (external site)
• Guidelines for the use of RhD Immunoglobulin in pregnant women (formerly Anti-D) - developed to guide clinical practice for general and country hospitals providing maternity services in Western Australia. (Word 253KB)
• Paediatric and neonatal iron deficiency anaemia guide – provides information to assist clinicians determining the appropriate formulation and dosage for addressing paediatric and neonatal iron deficiency anaemia (external site)

General transfusion

• Single unit transfusion guide – provides a guide to single unit transfusion based on the national Patient Blood Management Guidelines (external site)
• Red blood cell clinical audit tool - provides a standards-based audit  tool which may assist  in measuring current practice of red cell transfusion against best available evidence, in a continuous quality cycle (external site)

Other resources

• The Blood Matters Program (external site) is a Victorian state government program for improving the quality and safety of hospital transfusion care to patients.
• BloodSafe e-Learning (external site) is an online education package designed to develop knowledge of blood and to encourage safe transfusion practice and the appropriate use of blood components.

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