Why is she on the news talking about this?
Surely the Organization has a list of places she can go, why all the drama?
http://www.mybloodsite.com/content/can-bloodless-surgery-program-be-implemented-my-hospital
Can a Bloodless Surgery Program Be Implemented in My Hospital?
“Studies [show] that skipping transfusions results in faster recoveries -- and therefore lower hospital costs.” -Josie Huang, Kennebec Journal
Over 240 hospitals worldwide have already established bloodless medicine and surgery programs. The cost is minimal compared to the rewards.
If you are a hospital administrator check out our bloodless hospital list and contact administrators from the hospitals listed. They may be able to help you establish a bloodless program of you own. Or, check the links listed at the bottom of this page. Listed are competent professional consultants and companies that have helped hospitals establish bloodless medicine and surgery programs worldwide.
“The average cost of a heart surgery without blood is $16,435. With blood transfusions, the same surgery costs $23,415.” -WOAIIf you are a concerned citizen who would like to persuade your hospital to establish a program you have quite a job ahead of you. Information provided in the MyBlood website will help.
“An estimate that 20,000-30,000 [bloodless surgeries] procedures [are] performed annually in the USA is not unreasonable.” -Health Industry Today “At Englewood Hospital the transfusion rate among patients receiving coronary artery bypass grafting is down to 8 percent.” -Dr. Aryeh Shander“Having a Center for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery [CBMS] specifically attracts a previously unseen population of patients to PAH. Therefore, all profit from the CBMS population, regardless of its magnitude can be considered as an incremental gain to the Hospital’s net margin. By creating and successfully running this program in today’s increasingly competitive healthcare environment, the CEO has strategically placed PAH in the forefront of modern health care.” -Blood (ASH Annual Meeting Abstracts) 2004“Transfusions and their associated medical complications raised hospital costs by more than 40%.” -CirculationRegarding new bloodless surgery options "Among the benefits are reductions in recovery time, hospital stay, cost and complications -- as well as an estimated $20,000 in savings per patient." -Dr. Charles Bridges, Cardiologist, Pennsylvania Hospital“The case [of] Raymond Talbert: He was able to leave the hospital four days after his heart surgery. Northeast Baptist says other patients who received the same procedure with blood transfusions spent 15 to 22 days in the hospital.” - WOAI
“Just one unit of donated blood can cost a hospital more than $700. By the time the hospital matches the blood and does the transfusion, the cost to the patient can jump to $1,500 or more.” -WOAI"We perceive that hospitals will see bloodless surgery as a marketing strategy- that they will be 'forced' to provide an alternative to traditional surgery
requiring transfusions." -Frank Stephenson, VP of marketing and sales for Harvest Technologies “Bloodless surgery centers … are powerful arenas that attract patients who…refuse blood.” -AORN Journal“Blood banks, meanwhile, have hiked prices to as much as $500 a pint, giving hospitals an incentive to use blood more judiciously.” -Valerie Reitman, Los Angeles Times
“The hospital stay is also shorter for our bloodless patients, a cost savings for the patient and the institution.” -Dr. Patricia Ford, Pennsylvania Hospital
“But if we had not implemented the [blood conservation] program, you could add another 30 percent to 35 percent to the budget of $3 million to $3.5 million for blood products.” -Ierachmiel Daskal, MD, PhD, chairman, Department of Pathology, Albert Einstein Medical Center“Paul Potter, M.D., and a keynote speaker at October's NABMS convention, estimates that using [bloodless surgery] in half of all procedures would save the heath care industry $3.7 billion a year.” -Health Industry Today“Hospitals must pick up the tab for the first three units of blood infused per patient per calendar year. By contrast, hospitals may be reimbursed for drugs that boost a patient's red blood cell count.” -Jan Hoffman, Administrator, Blood Conservation Program, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pennsylvania Wikipedia – Bloodless Surgery
“Issues such as the cost of blood, limited availability and the potentially harmful effects of transfusion dictate continued research and the development of methods to appropriately minimize transfusion to patients having cardiac surgery.” -Dr. Thurer, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Links to organizations, consultants and websites that may assist in educating administrators and help in establishing a bloodless medicine and surgery program
BHD - Bloodless Healthcare Development
BMR - Bloodless Medicine Research - Europe
CSABM - The Croatian Society for Advancement of Bloodless Medicine
Hemo Concepts (Consultants)
MSBM - Medical Society for Blood Management
NATA - National Association for Transfusion Alternatives
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
NoBlood.org - Bloodless Forum and Info
SABM - Society for Advancement of Bloodless Medicine
SBI - Synthetic Blood International
"Financial and other ‘rewards’ for donation attract high-risk populations such as drug abusers and sex workers…[the incidence of infectious diseases such as syphilis has risen twenty- to fortyfold during the last few years].” -Dr Alex Gromyko, WHO Regional Office for Europe World Health Organization, United Nations affiliate
"The savings to hospitals that have employed a comprehensive program of reducing blood transfusions is, like, $3 million to $4 million a year. -Dr. Seski, Chief of Gynecologic Oncology, Allegheny General
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