With the incorporation of blood transfusion into mainstream medical practice after World War I, some critical aspects of ethical and scientific medical practice seem to have gradually become lost over time. In a lucid and sober keynote address, Dr Ananthi Krishnamoorthy discusses how bloodless medicine and surgery is a bridge to recovering what is apparently lost.
Dr Krishnamoorthy is a medical doctor with diverse experience in rehabilitation medicine, primary care & occupational health. She is certified by the Society for the Advancement of Patient Blood Management (SABM) on the Fundamental and Advanced Concepts of Patient Blood Management. She has varied her career including stints at the Blood Management Center, St Luke’s Hospital, Kansas City, USA, and the Center for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery, Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. She is a published author in the Medical Journal Malaysia and is a Collaborator for the manuscript : A Global Definition of Patient Blood Management (published in Anaesthesia & Analgesia, Feb 2022). She has been actively involved in organising PBM conferences in Asia and seeks to promote the superiority of PBM & bloodless medicine to everyone. She is a past secretary of the Malaysian Society for Patient Blood Management and the Bloodless Medicine & Surgery Society.
