Cell salvage and other bloodless medicine techniques are of proven safety and efficacy in obstetrics. Jonathan Waters, MD, in a stirring call to action makes the case for more widespread use of these life-saving techniques.
Dr Jonathan Waters is currently a Professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh; Chief of the Division of Anesthesiology at Magee-Womens Hospital of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; and, a member of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. In addition, he is Medical Director of the Patient Blood Management program of UPMC and Medical Director of the Blood Management Division for Procirca, Inc which is a UPMC owned Biomedical Engineering Company. His areas of expertise primarily focus on transfusion management, blood salvage and obstetrics. He has been federally funded to support investigation in these areas with over 150 peer-reviewed publications, five books on the topic of blood management and a book on neurologic disease in pregnancy. In addition to conducting research, he has served on the editorial board of the journal, Transfusion, and is currently serving as an Associate Editor. He is a past president of the Society for the Advancement of Blood Management (SABM). He served on the Board of Directors of the AABB between 2011 and 2015. He chaired the blood management technical advisory panel for the Joint Commission from 2007 to 2016.
