Center for Bloodless Medicine & Surgery at Pennsylvania Hospital
Bloodless medicine and surgery is a type of medical practice at Penn in Philadelphia that uses no blood products or transfusions during surgery.
Bloodless Medicine and Surgery at Penn in Philadelphia
The Center for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia is a premiere interdisciplinary bloodless medicine program for patients who prefer no blood methods of medical and surgical treatment.
Under the leadership of the Center for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery's Founder and Medical Director, Patricia Ford, MD, the bloodless medicine program at Penn is often cited as the model program for best practice in patient blood management by healthcare professionals and organizations throughout the country and the world.
Dr. Patricia Ford is an international expert on bloodless medicine and bloodless surgery. Dr. Ford performed the world's first bloodless stem cell transplant more than 15 years ago, and established the bloodless medicine program at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1996 to treat patients who do not wish to accept blood transfusions for religious, personal, medical or ethical reasons.
Since it was founded, the Center for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery at Pennsylvania Hospital has evolved into a major national bloodless center that treats more than 600 patients per year.
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