Guest editorial of the theme section: Patient blood management

The balance between life-saving transfusion and avoidable transfusion is the real state-of-the art of transfusion medicine. This theme section includes current knowledge of an interdisciplinary group of experts in the field of patient blood management (PBM). Surgeons, anesthesiologists, hematologists, pediatrics, internists and transfusion medicine specialists met a couple of years ago and founded a network for advancement of transfusion alternatives (NATA). The aim of the network was to optimize transfusion therapy thereby improving safety of transfusion.
Source: Transfusion and Apheresis Science - Category: Hematology Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research