Benefits to the patient

• Improves patient safety by minimizing exposure to blood
• Reduces hospital length of stay
• Minimizes risk of exposure to viruses and other blood-borne diseases
• Decreases the risk of hospital-acquired complications and infections
• Promotes improved outcomes
• Enhances quality of life and well-being
• Seeks to reduce the need for blood transfusion

How it works

• A patient is given a diagnosis
• Your health care team will evalaute your specific needs for managing your diagnosis
• Your providers will discuss your options with you
• Together, you'll make decisions on how to procede in your care

This approach is most likely to improve patient satisfaction and clinical outcome.

Hear about PBM from our team

Anemia and iron deficiency

• Globally, an estimated 2.4 billion people (mostly women) are anemic
• Around 1.2 billion of these people have iron deficiency anemia (IDA)
• Those suffering from iron deficiency without anemia could be at least double those with IDA
• Many of these patients are probably not “in need of a transfusion” but they are definitely in need of PBM

Referral center

UF Health is recognized as a center for Bloodless Surgical Care.

Hemopure

UF Health is one of a small number of US institutions that has access to Hemopure.

• Hemopure is an artificial blood substitute made from cow blood
• Hemopure is a hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier. It acts as a bridge while the body regenerates its own blood

The drug provides options for people:

• With life-threatening anemia who have no other alternatives
• Who decline transfusions for religious reasons

Hemopure is available only under investigational status through the FDA expanded access program. It is only available to qualifying patients in specific circumstances. Patients must be referred by a physician to UF Health.