Patient Blood Management is Associated With a Substantial Reduction of Red Blood Cell Utilization and Safe for Patient’s Outcome Study With a Noninferiority Design A Prospective, Multicenter Cohort

Patrick Meybohm, MD, Eva Herrmann, PhD,y Andrea U. Steinbicker, MD, MPH,z Maria Wittmann, MD,§ Matthias Gruenewald, MD, Dania Fischer, MD, Georg Baumgarten, MD,§ Jochen Renner, MD, Hugo K. Van Aken, MD, PhD, FRCA, FANZCA,z Christian F. Weber, MD, Markus M. Mueller, MD,jj Christof Geisen, MD,jj Julia Rey, PhD,y Dimitra Bon, MS,y Gudrun Hintereder, MD, Suma Choorapoikayil, PhD, Johannes Oldenburg, MD,yy Christian Brockmann, MD,zz Raoul G. Geissler, MD,§§ Erhard Seifried, MD,jj and Kai Zacharowski, MD, PhD, FRCA , the PBM-study Collaborators