Practical Guidance for Blood Supply and Use during the COVID-19 Pandemic Researchers in Europe and Canada reviewed more than 9,000 publications about COVID-19 and identified 414 papers relevant to blood collections,… July 15, 2020
Therapeutic Plasma Exchange in Patients with Severe COVID-19 Many patients with severe COVID-19 deteriorate rapidly when their immune systems become hyperactive, also known as cytokine storm. No effective… July 1, 2020
ABO Blood Group Associated with COVID-19 Severity It has long been known that different blood antigens may carry risks or protection depending on the disease, and coronaviruses… June 23, 2020
Pathogen Reduction Reduces SARS-CoV-2 in Plasma and Whole Blood Similar to other respiratory viruses, it is suspected that SARS-CoV-2 is not transfusion-transmitted. Nevertheless, SARS-CoV-2 has been detected in plasma,… June 17, 2020
Physical Distancing and PPE Reduce Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 The transfusion medicine community staff are at risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission; both laboratory technologists in the hospital and staff at… June 10, 2020
COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on Transfusion Services: Elective Surgeries Resume, Convalescent Plasma Use Increases, and Blood Supply Drops to Critical Levels Based on the AABB COVID-19 Weekly Hospital Transfusion Survey, which collected data from 96 hospitals in 35 states between May… June 2, 2020
Convalescent Plasma Decreases Mortality for Non-Intubated Patients with Severe COVID-19 Based on a preliminary propensity score-matched control study, convalescent plasma is beneficial for non-intubated patients with severe COVID-19. At the… May 27, 2020
Convalescent Plasma for COVID-19 Safe in First 5,000 Patients With limited therapies for patients with COVID-19 and a mortality rate of approximately 50% for patients in the ICU, demand… May 19, 2020
Coagulopathy in Patients with COVID-19—Interim Guidance from the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis Although the pathophysiology of severe COVID-19 is poorly understood, coagulopathy near the lungs has been shown to play an important… May 13, 2020
Blood Product Recalls Strain Finite Resources With blood shortage concerns from the COVID-19 pandemic, blood products are now more than ever a precious commodity. A recent… May 6, 2020
