A Simple “Blood-Saving Bundle” Reduces Diagnostic Blood Loss and the Transfusion Rate in Mechanically Ventilated Patients

• Reimer Riessen ,

  * E-mail: reimer.riessen@med.uni-tuebingen.de

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Intensive Care Unit, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Melanie Behmenburg,

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Intensive Care Unit, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Gunnar Blumenstock,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Applied Biometry, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Doris Guenon,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Applied Biometry, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Sigrid Enkel,

  Affiliation Clinical Transfusion Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Richard Schäfer,

  Affiliation Institute for Transfusion Medicine and Immunohaematology, German Red Cross Blood Donor Service Baden-Württemberg-Hessen GmbH, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-University Hospital, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

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• Michael Haap

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Intensive Care Unit, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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