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World Hematology 2019 & Nursing Care 2019
July 24-25, 2019
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Preoperative haemoglobin assessment and optimization pathway at the Mater Hospital
Brisbane
Gus Go
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, Cara O’Callaghan
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, Narelle Fagermo
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, Naadir Gutta
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Department of General Medicine, Mater Hospital Brisbane, Australia
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Department of Hematology, Mater Hospital Brisbane, Australia
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reoperative anaemia is associated with increased
perioperative complication rate in patients
undergoing elective surgery. Perioperative blood
transfusion is associated with increased morbidity
and mortality, even when as little as one unit of
packed red blood cells is administered.
Patient blood management is a nation-wide hospital
standard requirement. Our hospital has devised a
management pathway to reduce post-operative blood
produce replacement. The pathway was created to
streamline iron replacement therapy in our hospital.
The current pathway has been part of our hospital
policy since 2018 and currently we are performing
clinical audit to look at the rate of post-operative
blood transfusion and the associated transfusion
complication before and after the pathway has been
in effect.
Also, as part of state-wide hospital standard requirement of blood management, we formed a working party in perioperative blood
management to ensure we comply with the required national standard by ensuring all our surgical patient are fully optimized
prior to their elective surgery.
In conclusion, we have devised a preoperative hemoglobin assessment and optimization pathway which will require ongoing
audit to ensure compliance with national blood management standard.
Biography
Gus Go is a general and perioperative medicine physician currently practicing at Mater Hospital Brisbane. He is a committee
member of the perioperative blood management working party and actively participated in the ongoing clinical governance of
Mater Hospital to comply with national blood management standard. He is also an associate lecturer at University of Queensland
actively involved with clinical teaching of medical students.
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