Anemia and Transfusion on a Budget: A Spectrum of Care Approach to Anemia and Blood Loss

Presentation Description / Summary: The goal of this talk is to expand the thinking of the internal medicine specialist around providing options for clients with financial limitations using a spectrum of care approach. Specifically, we will define Spectrum of Care and review how specialists are critical to the evolution of this new paradigm due to their important role in determining effective treatment regimes and also in teaching case management approaches to students and peers. Using a series of cases we will then review a pragmatic yet safe approach to transfusion medicine that can be used in low cost setting or when clients are unable to afford traditional recommendations.

Learner Outcomes: 1) Attendees will be able to describe spectrum of care and how this approach can be integrated into internal medicine practice. 2) Attendees will be able to list cases or situations when it is not necessary to perform a cross match prior to transfusion and list situations when a cross match is essential. 3) Attendees will be able to list options for treatment of anemia at at least three price points.