Multi-Country Review of ABO-Incompatible Red Blood Cell Transfusions Safety measures to prevent ABO-incompatible red blood cell (RBC) transfusions are in place throughout the entire process from blood donation… November 26, 2024
FDA: Donor Screening of Zika Virus Unnecessary in United States In 2015 and 2016, large outbreaks of the mosquito-borne Zika virus occurred in the Americas. Infection with the Zika virus… June 5, 2024
Annual U.K. SHOT Report on Serious Hazards of Transfusions The Royal College of Pathologists in the United Kingdom recently published their annual report for 2022 on the Serious Hazards… July 26, 2023
High Variability in Antibody Titer Determination in Transfusion Medicine Antibody levels are important for many aspects of clinical care from evaluating the incompatibility of transfusions and transplants to determining… March 2, 2023
Blood Centers Not Ready to Remove the Phthalate DEHP from Blood Bags Phthalates are plasticizers added to many everyday plastic products to increase its flexibility, transparency, and longevity. However, phthalates are also… February 23, 2022
X- and Gamma-Irradiation Impact Red Blood Cells Similarly Transfusion-associated graft versus host disease (TA-GVHD) is a rare complication that occurs when histoincompatible viable lymphocytes are transfused into an… November 22, 2021
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
National Survey Finds Stable Adverse Transfusion Reaction Rate in the U.S. The 2017 National Blood Collection and Utilization Survey (NBCUS) used a web-based survey of approximately 3,000 U.S. community-based and hospital-based… March 11, 2020
Electronic Scanning of Patient Wristbands Reduces Chance of ABO-Incompatible Transfusions ABO-incompatible transfusions can be life-threatening to patients and are often attributable to human errors. Wrong blood in tube (WBIT) errors… December 19, 2018
Revisiting Zika virus screening for donated blood In 2015, the Zika virus (ZIKV) rapidly spread to the Americas and other countries, and four possible transfusion-transmission cases were… May 10, 2018
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