World Bloodless Surgery Day (WBSD), May 16, marks the pioneering work of the Father of modern Bloodless Surgery, Dr Denton Cooley. On that day in 1962, Dr Cooley successfully performed the first bloodless open heart surgery on a Jehovah's Witness, previously thought to be impossible. It turned out that the 'impossible' was not only possible, but accompanied by superior clinical outcomes, compared with transfused cases. Dr Cooley's seminal work became the basis for modern bloodless surgery and patient blood management.
BMSS in collaboration with SABM and the Bloodless Medicine & Surgery Group in University of Calabar, Nigeria, marked WBSD 2022 with a webinar featuring 3 speakers seen in this video:
1. Keynote Address: World Bloodless Surgery Day – Celebrating Excellence & Innovation! (Dr Shannon Farmer DHSc, Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Haematology, Royal Perth Hospital, Western Australia, Adjunct Snr Research Fellow, Medical School, CTEC, Division of Surgery, Faculty of Health & Medical Sciences, The University of Western Australia)
2. Bloodless Caesarean Section techniques (Michael Jones, MD, FCOG, Chief of Ob/Gyn, Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, CEO, The Jones Center for Women’s Health, Fayetteville, NC, USA)
3. Anaesthesia & perioperative care in bloodless obstetric surgery (Jonathan Waters, MD, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Pittsburg, Chief of the Division of Anesthesiology Magee-Women’s Hospital, University of Pittsburg Medical Center, USA)
