​Committee on Patient Blood Management

Committee Resources

The following work products and resources have been created and/or compiled by the ASA Committee on Patient Blood Management.

Platelets: An Update From COBM (PDF) (Member exclusive)
(Committee on Blood Management)

Transfusion Consent Form (PDF) (Member exclusive)
(Committee on Blood Management)

National Blood Shortage – Optimization and Minimization 
Techniques for Patient Blood Management (PBM)  (PDF) 
(Committee on Blood Management)

Addressing Patient Concerns with Blood Transfusion from Donors Vaccinated Against COVID-19: A Clinician Primer (2024)

Guideline on the use of blood components and their alternatives (2024)

Practice Advisory on the Implementation of Preoperative Anemia Management: The Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists and the Society for the Advancement of Patient Blood Management (2024) Subscription required

Return on Investment of Preoperative Anemia Management Programs in Cardiac Surgery: An Advisory from the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Clinical Practice Improvement Committee with Endorsement by the Society for the Advancement of Patient Blood Management (2024) Subscription required

What's in Your Transfusion? A Bedside Guide to Blood Products and Their Preparation (2024)

Intraoperative Blood Management Strategies for Patients Undergoing Non-Cardiac Surgery: The Ottawa Intraoperative Transfusion Consensus (2023)

Recommendations from the International Consensus Conference on Anemia Management in Surgical Patients (ICCAMS) (2023)

Red Blood Cell Transfusion: 2023 AABB International Guidelines (2023)

A Global Definition of Patient Blood Management (2022)

STS/SCA/AmSECT/SABM Update to the Clinical Practice Guidelines on Patient Blood Management (2021)

Committee information

These committee work products/resources have not been approved by ASA’s Board of Directors or House of Delegates and do not represent an ASA Policy, Statement or Guideline.