PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Deborah Tolich
AU  - Moises Auron
AU  - Kelly McCoy
AU  - Marni Dargis
AU  - NurJehan Quraishy
TI  - Blood management during the COVID-19 pandemic
AID  - 10.3949/ccjm.87a.ccc053
DP  - 2020 Aug 05
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/early/2020/07/29/ccjm.87a.ccc053.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/early/2020/07/29/ccjm.87a.ccc053.full
AB  - The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has required healthcare systems to implement strategies for effective healthcare delivery while managing blood supply chain disruptions and shortages created by infection-limiting practices that have reduced blood donations. At Cleveland Clinic, we have made multiple synchronous efforts: a call for increased blood collection, alignment of efforts among transfusion medicine departments (blood banks), enhanced monitoring and triage of blood product use, and increased education on patient blood management practices regarding blood utilization and anemia management. In addition, we created an algorithm to assess anemia risks in patients whose elective surgery was cancelled to optimize preoperative hemoglobin levels.