Rethinking Blood Conservation Initiative

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Rethinking Blood Conservation Initiative

Welcome to the Rethinking Blood Conservation^SM Initiative home page. The Medtronic RBC^SM Initiative is an evidence-based educational program that works with you to devise strategies and tactics to:

Help improve your patient outcomes
Reduce the length of ICU and hospital stays
Minimize complications related to blood use

The RBC^SM Initiative advocates a multi-modality approach to blood conservation to improve patient outcomes and reduce the financial burden of blood use-related complications.

As a leader in blood management technology, Medtronic is at the forefront of helping to implement effective blood conservation programs. For more information on how this program works and how it can help your institution improve patient outcomes and reduce blood use-related complications, return the form at right. We’ll have one of our blood conservation experts contact you.

Blood is among the most vital patient-care resources used today, but it is not an endless resource. Over the past few decades, a number of factors have converged to turn blood use and blood conservation into matters that hospital administrators and medical professionals must urgently address. Cardiac surgery is particularly vulnerable. Transfusions for cardiac surgery use about 20% of the United States’ blood supply.¹ Patients transfused during elective CABG surgery had twice the five-year mortality as those not transfused.²

Speiss BD. Transfusion and outcome in heart surgery. Ann Thorac Surg. 2002; 74(4):986-7.
Engoren MC, Habib RH, Zacharias A, Schwann TA, Riordan CH, Durham SJ. Effect of blood transfusion on long-term survival after cardiac operation. Ann Thorac Surg. 2002; 74(4):1180-6

Blood Matters!