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Webinar: Optimal PBM – Improve Cardiac Surgery Outcomes

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Overview:

The health of every patient’s blood plays a crucial role in clinical outcomes, the overall cost of care and complexity of care — especially for anemic, cardiac patients.

Listen to the patient blood management experts in this session to gain a better understanding of how an optimal blood utilization strategy can improve outcomes for cardiac patients at your organization. Including a real-world case study from Jefferson Health. 

 

Expected Learning Points:

▪Understand the pillars of Patient Blood Management and their role cardiac surgery and patient-centered decision making 
â–ŞThe role of coagulation management and how to build it into a blood utilization strategy
▪Employing patient-centered decision making 

Speakers:

â–Ş Jacob Raphael, MD, FAHA
Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologist, Professor of Anesthesiology & Director of Clinical Research (Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals)

â–ŞSiyavash (Sia) Fooladian, MD, MPH
Medical Director, R&D, Acute Care Diagnostics (Werfen)

▪Aryeh Shander, MD, FCCM, FCCP 
Medical Director (CSL Behring)

â–ŞSherri Ozawa, MSN, RN
Director of Clinical Operations and Delivery, Patient Blood Management (Accumen)

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Sherri Ozawa, RN

Sherri Ozawa serves as the Director Clinical Operations and Delivery for Comprehensive Patient Blood Management. She is a founding member and past president of the Society for the Advancement of Blood Management (SABM). She has been a leader in bloodless medicine for more than two decades. Her background in critical care nursing has allowed her to create and most widely known multi-disciplinary patient blood management program at Englewood Health hospital in New Jersey. She has lectured nationally and internationally with a focus on the creation and implementation of sustainable, organized patient blood management programs. She has published numerous, peer-reviewed abstracts, posters, book chapters, and articles in the field and continues to be actively involved in research in her field. She worked extensively with regulatory agencies and other academic organizations such as the Joint Commission to analyze better practices for the delivery and creation of organized patient blood management programs.
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