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, ...

The Transfusion Medicine/Hemostasis Clinical Trials Network (TMH CTN) was created by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) in 2002 and is charged with performing trials in children and ...

Montreal, April 19th, 2007 -- In its April 19th, 2007 edition, the New England Journal of Medicine published an article about the findings of a multi-center randomized clinical trial that compared ...

Postsurgical bleeding causes significant morbidity and mortality in children undergoing surgery for congenital heart defects (CHD). 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (DS) is the second most common genetic ...

Recently published research found that blood transfusion is associated with adverse outcomes -- including infection and higher rates of tumor recurrence -- in pediatric solid tumor oncology patients ...

The burden of anemia and RBC transfusions in the PICU population are significant. The current guidelines for pediatric blood transfusions are mainly based on available information regarding ...

NEUCHATEL, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) today announced the findings of a retrospective study published in the Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing in which Dr. Ayten ...

Aurora: Blood transfusion is a critical and lifesaving intervention in a variety of situations, ranging from trauma response to cancer therapy. It is, however, not without risk. Recently published ...

Noting that traditional methods of measuring hemoglobin and estimating blood loss as part of perioperative blood transfusion management are “time consuming” and may cause delays in decision making, ...

Neuroblastoma Mass Screening in Late Infancy: Insights Into the Biology of Neuroblastic Tumors Purpose: Severe anemias requiring RBC transfusions is a frequent complication of chemotherapy. A model ...