Pre-Hospital Transfusion Reduces Risk of Death and Improves Coagulation Status in Trauma Patients An abstract presented by John Holcomb and colleagues at the 2013 American Heart Association Meeting in November showed that pre-hospital… December 6, 2013
Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Plays Important Role in Red Cell Development The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) may play an important physiologicaland functional role in red cell development, according to a new… July 11, 2013
VIDEO: 30-Minute Rule For RBC Temperature Control May Be Too Restrictive A study published in TRANSFUSION has found that exposure of red cell units to 30 degrees Celsius for up to… June 30, 2013
VIDEO: Randomized Trial of Prophylactic Platelet Transfusions A trial which randomized 600 haematological cancer patients to receive or not to receive prophylactic platelet transfusions showed that prophylactic… June 14, 2013
Novel Surgical Schedules Developed to Optimize Preoperative Blood Ordering A study suggests that blood utilization data from an electronic anesthesia information management system can be used to assess institutional… June 7, 2013
VIDEO: Association of Blood Storage Duration and Mortality Remains Unclear A randomized trial published in the journal Blood utilized a dog model to show that transfusion of 42-day old blood… April 29, 2013
VIDEO: Monthly Erythropoiesis-Stimulating Agent May be Effective in Treating Anemia among Chronic Kidney Disease Patients Two sets of recent randomized trials have demonstrated that peginesatide, a second generation ESA, may be effective in treating anemia… February 28, 2013
VIDEO: Restrictive Transfusion Strategy May Benefit Patients with Acute Gastrointestinal Bleeding A randomized trial among patients suffering from acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding, was published in The New England Journal of Medicine…. January 29, 2013
WHO May Add Blood to Model List of Essential Medicines An application to include whole blood and red cells on the World Health Organization’s “Model List of Essential Medicines” has… January 25, 2013
VIDEO: Blood Transfusion Is Not An Independent Predictor of Mortality A new study published in the journal Transfusion suggests that chest tube drainage, but not transfusion, is independently associated with… January 14, 2013
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