Why the study?
Considerable changes in approaches to blood components and alternative products over the last decade created a need to update previous guidelines for anaesthesiologists.
Provides updated 2020 guidelines for perioperative patient blood management by the South African Society of Anaesthesiologists.
Updated South African perioperative blood management guidance may aid local clinicians; leaves open need for outcome validation studies.
Anaesthesiologists regularly request and administer blood components to their patients, a potentially life-saving intervention. All anaesthesiologists must be familiar with the indications and appropriate use of blood and blood components and their alternatives, but close liaison with haematologists and their local haematology blood sciences laboratory is encouraged. In the last decade, there have been considerable changes in approaches to optimal use of blood components, together with the use of alternative products, with a need to update previous guidelines and adapt them for anaesthesiologists working throughout the hospital system.
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Wise et al. (2020) conducted a review in Perioperative Patient Blood Management. Perioperative Patient Blood Management Guidelines was evaluated. The South African Society of Anaesthesiologists updated their 2020 guidelines on perioperative patient blood management to reflect changes in optimal blood component use and alternative products.
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