| Summary: | <p>—Strategies to conserve blood and reduce exposure to allogeneic blood improve outcomes after orthopaedic surgery.</p>
<p>—A multidisciplinary team approach, including surgeons, anesthesiologists, hematologists, and other medical specialties, is required to deliver optimal blood management.</p>
<p>—Key steps are to optimize preoperative hemoglobin levels, administer antifibrinolytics, use cell salvage for procedures with high blood loss, and adhere to restrictive transfusion thresholds.</p>
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