Comprehensive perioperative blood management in patients undergoing elective bypass cardiac surgery: Benefit effect of health care education and systematic correction of iron deficiency and anemia on red blood cell transfusion.

Study Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of a two-step patient blood management (PBM) program in red blood cell (RBC) transfusion requirements among patients undergoing elective cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) surgery.

Design: Prospective, non-randomized, two-step protocol design.

Setting: Cardiac surgery department of Clinique Pasteur, Toulouse, France.