An international panel of experts co-chaired by Jeffrey Carson, Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, developed guidelines for new strategies which could ...

Perioperative blood transfusion (PBT) remains a cornerstone in managing significant blood loss during oncologic surgery, yet its use has been increasingly scrutinised due to potential adverse impacts ...

The transfusion audit (i.e. clinical audit) is a quality improvement process that seeks to improve patient care and outcomes, through the systematic review of the use of transfused blood components ...

Blood transfusion is an essential therapeutic procedure in pediatrics, often indispensable for child survival. It is required in various clinical situations such as severe anemia, severe malaria, ...

A new study published in the BMJ Heart showed that in infective endocarditis (IE) surgery, anemia and transfusion are quite ...

The US Food and Drug Administration is considering a requirement for blood banks to use a new test that can detect the parasites that cause malaria in certain donors’ blood, and it’s seeking the ...

Objective: To review the pathophysiology of anemia, as well as transfusion-related complications and indications for red blood cell (RBC) transfusion, in critically ill children. Although allogeneic ...

Changing clinical thresholds for the single leading reason for blood transfusions could safely produce significant savings for the NHS, according to NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) research published ...