Patient Security has got public interest in the last years in many countries. The rise of the awareness about necessity of blood management in the public and in surgery and the influence of single J.W. (physicians, consultants and patients) who played role – and what role - is very exciting. From bloodless surgery, AIDS, EBOLA, WHO, .....till PBM. So no it doesnt turn simple about the possible that dirty blood donations of illegal mexican immigrants could bring epidemics to U.S.A now already a global awaresness about Patient Safety and Bloodmanagement is achieved. Especially in a time when people are growing older each decade and are travelling around the globe.
Thanks to OrphanCrow my attention has been drawn to this subject. While I was digging around in the Internet I found the following report of 2016 about the successes of blood management in Germany.
Today in Germany we have 4 centers of excellence for Patient blood managment, university hospitals Frankfurt, Bonn, Kiel und Muenster. They form a project group for bloodmanagement. www.patientbloodmanagement.de
The university hospital Frankfurt where Prof. Kai Zacharowski and his team work is one of them.
This year 2016 president Obama and vice Biden awarded German physicians Prof. Kai Zacharowski with Humanitarian Award for Patient Safety. So you see the achieved public attention about this matter.
Patient Safety Movement Foundation awarded Prof. Kai Zacharowski besides US President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden for his important contribution to reducing preventable patient deaths. The Patient Safety Movement Foundation set the goal tomassively reduce the number of preventable deaths of hospital patients worldwide by 2020. ….The Congress was attended by 250 international experts in medicine and politics, including former US President Bill Clinton. The study group from Germany travelled with representatives from 4 university hospitals (Frankfurt, Bonn, Kiel and Muenster). The group recently completed its study on Patient Blood Management with 129,000 patients. www.patientbloodmanagement.de/en/events
Further a German award has been granted to the project team of bloodmanagement.de
http://www.patientbloodmanagement.de/de/home
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A swiss TV team accompanies the successful work of Prof. Zacharowski, named "Dangerous Bloodtransfusions" and how all German hospitals are going make a change.
Here is the quick link to the english film
http://screenart.tv/portfolio/gefaehrliche-bluttransfusionen
Crushing evidence that side effects of transfusions are dangerous. Bad news for the medical world.
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November Newsletter about the latest develpments of PBM in Germany
https://www.kundeneingang.net/files/560/1/docroot/2014_11_26_PBM_Newsletter4.pdf