Liquid Plasma Acceptable for Severe Trauma Patients with Major Bleeding Recent studies have highlighted the importance of expeditious transfusion of plasma, platelets and red blood cells in a 1:1:1 ratio… March 16, 2017
New PLASMIC Scoring System to Help Diagnose Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is a rare blood disorder caused by a lack of ADAMTS13 activity, which normally cleaves the… March 8, 2017
Administration of Fibrinogen Concentrate during Cardiac Surgery Does Not Significantly Reduce Blood Loss Since fibrinogen plays a key role in hemostasis and it is rapidly depleted during cardiac surgery, many cardiac surgeons give… March 1, 2017
Patients with Hematologic Cancers Have Lower Rates of Alloimmunization with RhD Over 20% of RhD-negative non-oncology patients exposed to RhD-positive red blood cells (RBCs) become alloimmunized to the RhD antigen. In… February 22, 2017
Zika-Positive Blood Donations Can Be Inactivated Using Pathogen Inactivation Technologies Emerging infections, such as the Zika virus (ZIKV), continue to surface due to global travel, migration, and the spread of… February 15, 2017
Transfusion Testing Strategies for Multiple Myeloma Patients Undergoing Anti-CD38 Therapy Anti-CD38 therapies such as daratumumab have increased survival time for patients with multiple myeloma. This novel therapy, however, interferes with… February 10, 2017
Postpartum Hemorrhage and Predelivery Anemia are Risk Factors for Severe Postpartum Anemia after Cesarean Sections Cesarean sections are one of the most common surgical operations. Postpartum anemia is a prevalent side-effect, and has been linked… February 1, 2017
Platelet Counts in Blood Donors Deferred for Hemoglobin Are Variable Repeat blood donors make up a significant proportion of the blood donor pool in the United States. Recent studies have… January 25, 2017
Asymptomatic Blood Donors Have Zika Virus As the Zika flavivirus (ZIKV) has spread throughout the Western Hemisphere, reports of severe side effects such as Guillain-Barre syndrome,… January 19, 2017
Improving Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Collection for Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation The City of Hope National Medical Center in California performs nearly 400 autologous stem cell transplants (ASCT) per year using… January 11, 2017
