In this episode Liz and Jesse are joined Cienwen Town, clinical nurse consultant for Perioperative Patient Blood Management at RBWH. Cienwen takes us through the topic of anaemia, especially from a perspective of blood product conservation in the perioperative period.

Cienwen’s Five Things:

1. What is anaemia?
2. Most common symptoms and causes of anaemia.
3. Who and how to screen for anaemia.
4. Optimising anaemia.
5. Managing anaemia on the ward.