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PLASTIC RECONSTRUCTIVE AND REGENERATIVE SURGERY

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Modern therapeutic options in medicine typically come with a drawback: they are either costly or not suitable for everyone. However, over the past 20 years, Transfusion Medicine has evolved into Patient Blood Management (PBM), a treatment approach that not only improves patient outcomes but also reduces healthcare costs.

PBM is an evidence-based, patient-centered strategy designed to optimize and preserve a patient's own blood while enhancing safety and clinical outcomes. It focuses on three key principles: preventing anemia, minimizing blood loss, and reducing unnecessary transfusions1. These elements are interdependent, bleeding leads to anemia, which in turn increases the need for transfusion; each factor is associated with higher mortality and increased healthcare costs. [ ... ]

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Manuel Muñoz Department of Surgical Specialties, Biochemistry and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain

Jens Meier Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Kepler University Hospital GmbH, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria

Anna Falanga Department of Transfusion Medicine and Hematology, Hospital Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy; Casa di Cura Palazzolo, Bergamo, Italy; Fondazione ARTET Onlus, Bergamo, Italy

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