Day in the Life: ATS Edition with Kimberly Sharp
We greatly appreciate and value all of our SpecialtyCare ATS employees. We’re highlighting one of our Area Managers, Kimberly Sharp, whose work upholds our mission and vision. She discusses what led her to healthcare and what a typical day in...
Day in the Life: ATS Edition with Stephen Watkins
We greatly appreciate and value all of our SpecialtyCare ATS employees. This week, we’re highlighting one of our Clinical Managers, Stephen Watkins, whose work upholds our mission and vision. He discusses what led him to healthcare and what a typical...
The Truth About Autotransfusion
The truth is autotransfusion safely outperforms donor blood transfusions and significantly reduces costs for your hospital, clinic, or medical facility. SpecialtyCare is the leading choice for OR support services, helping you build an operating room of excellence. Our team of... Understanding Autotransfusion
Every day, 250 highly skilled ATS clinical specialists work in operating rooms across the country to provide high-quality care and improve patient outcomes. At SpecialtyCare, Autrotransfusion is one of our longest-standing service lines. Each one of those procedures involves a...
Improve Your Patient Blood Management Program with Autotransfusion
There are twenty-one million blood components transfused every year in the United States. Autotransfusion is a rapid solution when a patient needs blood quickly, and it reduces the risk of infection and serious disease. It’s also a cheaper and safer...
Blood Shortage Gets National Attention
COVID-19 caused overwhelming challenges to providing adequate medical care to patients, including a decline in donor turnout, blood drive cancellations, and staffing challenges. As a result, we’re experiencing the worst blood shortage in over a decade, which the American Red...
Advocating for Safer Surgery-Principle #3: Blood Transfusion Reduction
Some providers have learned that balancing both clinical and economic concerns must begin on the most basic level—with a check of the patient’s blood health—and implementation of effective patient blood management (PBM) strategies. Blood transfusion has been associated with higher…
Why Autotransfusion Is Safer and More Cost-Efficient than Donated Blood...
Blood transfusion is widely considered to be a beneficial treatment, but the American Medical Association and the Joint Commission say that it’s one of the five most overused procedures in medicine. Research reveals that up to 60% of red blood…
Salvaging Patients’ Blood During Cardiac Surgery Can Be Good for Their...
The study, “The Influence of Intraoperative Autotransfusion on Postoperative Hematocrit after Cardiac Surgery: A Cross-Sectional Study,” published in the December 2017 issue of The Journal of ExtraCorporeal Technology. CLINICAL ISSUE The salvage and re-infusion of blood lost during surgery—a practice…