Bleeding, anaemia, and transfusion: an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins Health System Patient Blood Management Program, The Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: sfrank3@jhmi.edu.
• ² Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Division of Transfusion Medicine and Cellular Therapy and Clinical Laboratories, Department of Pathology, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.