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Personalized Prediction Model of Prophylactic Platelet Transfusions for Preterm Infants

International transfusion guidelines based on one large randomized controlled trial for preterm infants with severe thrombocytopenia (platelet count < 50…

September 24, 2025

Caffeine in Donor Blood Reduces Quality of Stored RBCs

Caffeine, one of the most consumed psychoactive substances worldwide, is a non-selective antagonist of adenosine receptors, including ADORA2B expressed on…

September 16, 2025

Ferritin Levels Needed to Assess Hemoglobin Recovery after Blood Donation

Repeat blood donors are at risk of developing iron deficiency. Premenopausal women lose, on average, 60% of their total iron…

September 10, 2025

High Variability in ICU Transfusion Practices Globally

The International Point Prevalence Study of Intensive Care Unit Transfusion Practices (InPUT) is a prospective cohort study that included 3643…

October 18, 2023

Concizumab Lowers Rate of Bleeding in Hemophilia Patients with Inhibitors

While current guidelines for treating patients with hemophilia A or B recommend intravenous factor VIII or IX concentrates, many patients…

September 6, 2023

SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Titers and Qualifying Donors for Convalescent Plasma

With no vetted therapies or vaccines for COVID-19 and almost a million confirmed cases in the United States alone, the…

April 29, 2020

VIDEO: Risk Factors for Fetal and Neonatal Alloimmune Thrombocytopenia

Today we will be discussing fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia, also referred to as NAIT, which affects about 1 in…

January 15, 2016

VIDEO: Cardiac Surgery in Patients who Refuse Transfusion is Not More Costly

Today we will be discussing cardiac surgery patients who refuse transfusions, such as Jehovah’s Witnesses.  Although the transfusion rate varies…

December 15, 2015

VIDEO: Daily Iron Supplements Decrease Iron Absorption

Today we will be discussing the best way to treat iron deficiency anemia which affects at least one billion people…

November 30, 2015

VIDEO: Blood Donor Lead Levels and Concern for Infants and Children

Today we will be discussing lead levels in blood donors. Babies and young children are particularly susceptible to the neurotoxic…

November 15, 2015

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