French health authorities published a set of medical recommendations on Monday, September 12, to avoid blood transfusions as much as possible in the context of insufficient blood supplies.
These recommendations issued by the highest health authority (HAS) aim to “compensate for blood loss and risksrelated to the transfusion, the institution summarizes in a press release.
Encourage the French to donate blood
In France, as in other European countries, blood supplies are regularly at insufficient levels to meet medical demands. Over the past year, the body responsible for recruiting blood donors, the French blood establishment (EFS), has repeatedly warned of an emergency.vitalto restore them. This includes campaigns to encourage French people to donate blood, but also less systematic use of transfusions to save existing supplies.
Moreover, the limitation of transfusions is of medical interest in itself, because this operation involves significant risks for the patient. Therefore, HAS has published a series of recommendations based on concepts developed in the medical world over the past twenty years:patient blood managementtranslated into French asblood capital management“.
“Positive Results”
The goal of this approach is to avoid, as much as possible, a situation where a blood transfusion is unavoidable. This implies, for example, treating the patient before the operation, so that at the moment of the operation he does not appear in a state of anemia, a lack of red blood cells, which will require a transfusion.
During surgery, it is about using methods that limit the patient’s bleeding as much as possible. This approach “already widely deployed in some countries such as Australia or Germany with positive results“, HAS emphasized.
However, these recommendations must now be materialized in the actual practice of the medical world, a challenge whose complex nature the health body recognizes. will be necessary”good collaboration between different stakeholders around the patient: anesthesiologist-reanimatologist, surgeon, hemovigilants, nurses, hospital pharmacists, EFS, biologists…“HAS warned.
Source: Le Figaro
