Early Administration of Tranexamic Acid Reduces Maternal Deaths Due to Bleeding Administration of tranexamic acid, an antifibrinolytic drug, has been shown to reduce bleeding in trauma and surgery patients. The results… May 3, 2017
Transfusion of Red Blood Cells from Younger Donors Is Not Associated with Improved Survival Animal models suggest that blood from younger donors may provide revitalizing benefits, but findings from observational cohort studies on this… April 26, 2017
Survival for Non-Trauma Patients Transfused with High Ratios of Plasma to Red Blood Cells Although numerous studies have reported improved survival for trauma patients transfused with higher ratios of fresh frozen plasma (FFP) compared… March 22, 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
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
Red Cells Stored Longer than Five Weeks May be Harmful AABB’s clinical practice guidelines recently stated that transfusion of fresh red blood cells (RBCs) compared to standard issue RBCs have… December 21, 2016
Standard Issue RBCs are Equivalent to Fresh RBCs for Transfusion Results of the Informing Fresh versus Old Red Cell Management (INFORM) trial have recently been presented at the AABB annual… October 27, 2016
Massive Transfusion Protocols Vary Among U.S. Hospitals Over the past several years, clinical studies have shown that blood transfused early and quickly can reduce mortality in severe… October 19, 2016
New AABB Guidelines for Red Blood Cell Storage and Transfusion Thresholds The AABB has recently published updated guidelines for red blood cell (RBC) transfusion thresholds and the optimal length of storage…. October 13, 2016
New Techniques Identify Oxidative Lesions on Stored RBCs Stored red blood cells (RBCs) undergo morphologic and biochemical changes with time. In a recently published study in Blood, researchers… September 28, 2016
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