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)
• 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 determining 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 
• Iron product choice and dose calculation guide for adults | National Blood Authority - designed to assist clinicians in providing practical advice on the choice and route of administration for iron products and supplements
• 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)
• Guidelines on the Prophylactic use of Rh D immunoglobulin in pregnancy care | National Blood Authority (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.
• Patient blood management (external site)
• Patient blood management - consent (external site)
• Blood Management
• Blood Management Standard | Australia Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care

Further information

Members of the Blood Unit are available from Monday to Friday during the hours of 8.30 am to 4.30 pm.

Blood Unit
Office of the Chief Medical Officer
Level 3, GPO Building
3 Forrest Place
Perth WA 6000
Phone: 6373 2321
Email: bloodmanagement@health.wa.gov.au