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PBM Project

An unrestricted educational grant from CSL Vifor has been instrumental in allowing us to take forward the WFSA perioperative patient blood management programme.

Perioperative-patient blood management offers a cost-effective, resource-efficient approach that not only preserves patients’ own blood but also empowers them through better diagnosis, treatment, and perioperative care.

Key achievements of the programme include the development of our P-PBM course and the successful promotion of the Santa Cruz Declaration, endorsed by 100+ organisations.

Meeting in-person at WCA2024: meet the workforce at the front of the new P-PBM Course

Piloting the P-PBM course

We are now working to pilot the P-PBM course in the contrasting clinical settings of Colombia and Romania.

Following development of the course content during 2023 and 2024, the purpose of these pilots is to determine what revisions and changes will need to be made prior to finalisation and global roll-out of the training.

Thanks to this initial funding, we have been able to secure additional funding from other donors. This has made it possible to adapt the P-PBM facilitator course for low-resource settings, with a pilot of the new course planned for Ethiopia in early 2026.

Innovation Award in Blood Health  

Building on WFSA’s successful Innovation Awards Programme, we have launched a new award category on ‘blood health’ funded by another unrestricted educational grant from CSL Vifor.  

Objectives include:  

  • Developing a viable blood health innovation. 
  • Generating awareness about the importance of good blood health within the context of other patient blood management initiatives currently underway.  
  • To showcase blood health innovation at WFSA’s World Congress of Anaesthesiologists (WCA) in Marrakech, Morocco, in April 2026.  

The Innovation Award will be open to anaesthesia professionals across WFSA’s network and more widely. Medical practitioners involved in optimising patient care will be interested in the outcomes of this blood health initiative, with the Awardee and their innovation to be widely publicised through WFSA and our partner networks.  

Award criteria are currently being developed and will be followed by the launching of the Blood Health Innovation Award on 1 July 2025.   

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