Your Blood, Your Wishes

Bring your questions about blood use. We have the answers.

In a first-of-its-kind event at Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN), we’re offering an open house from 1-4 p.m. on Saturday, May 18, at Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest with experts on patient blood management and “bloodless” medicine and surgery.

Join us in the auditorium at LVH–Cedar Crest and in Kasych Family Pavilion. Light refreshments will be available.

Registration isn’t required, but we strongly encourage it. 

Register here

Our patient blood management program offers customized options for patients to help ensure the best possible outcomes. It’s a multidisciplinary approach that has a variety of benefits, including improved patient safety and quality of care. It leads to better-informed transfusion decisions.

Our patient blood management program uses a multidisciplinary approach to offer many benefits, including improved patient safety and quality of care. As a result, patients are better informed about customized health care options, leading to the best possible outcomes.

Effective patient blood management means employing best practices to avoid transfusions. Why is this important? Blood transfusions don’t come with zero risk. In addition to offering options for patients with religious or ethical beliefs against transfusions, patient blood management also helps those with concerns about transfusion-related complications, or people with underlying medical conditions that could make transfusions risky.

Bloodless medicine and surgery is an approach to health care that aims to minimize or eliminate the need for blood transfusions during medical procedures. It focuses on strategies to conserve and manage a person’s own blood, reduce bleeding and using alternative treatments to maintain blood volume. It provides a safer and more tailored approach to care for people who want to avoid blood transfusions.

Through patient blood management and bloodless medicine and surgery strategies, LVHN has made huge strides over the past five years to transfuse more appropriately. We are exposing patients to fewer transfusions and less risk and saving blood for those who truly need it.

Join us for physician lectures in the auditorium and an interactive, vendor-style layout in the hallway in Kasych and in the pavilion conference rooms. Teams and topics will include:

• Hematology
• HNL Lab Medicine (with free anemia testing)
• Hemophilia
• Preoperative staging
• Advance care planning
• Cell saver and heart/lung machines
• Hackerman-Patz House
• Perfusion services

• Bradley Lash, MD
  LVH Hematology Oncology
• Christine Kim, MD
  LVPG Gynecologic Oncology
• Andrew Tsen, MD
  LVPG  Neurosurgery
• Nainesh Patel, MD
  LVH Cardiology
• Robert Mimari and Ryan Williams
  LVHN Perfusion Services