The Bloodless Medicine and Surgery program is a focused commitment to provide medical care and surgical procedures without the use of stored blood products. This outcome is achieved using the following fundamental strategies:

• Plan ahead to fully integrate bloodless strategies into a patient’s treatment plan
• Screen for anemia (low red cell count) and correct it prior to surgery
• Complete a detailed bleeding risk assessment and provide appropriate intervention
• Minimize blood loss from laboratory testing by microsampling
• Prevent the loss of blood during surgery by using the most advanced instruments and practice meticulous surgical hemostasis
• Collect the blood lost during and after surgery and recycle it back into the patient.
• Acknowledge the tolerance of anemia
• Treat anemia in hospitalized patients with iron and other pharmaceutical agents
• Get 'out of the box' and consider novel approaches to clinical management