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
Researchers Identify Gene Which Regulates Heme Synthesis A team of researchers led by Dr. Dhvanit Shah of Harvard Medical School has shown that mitochondrial ATPase inhibitory factor… November 20, 2012
VIDEO: Randomized Trial Demonstrates No Benefit of Fresh Red Cells for Transfusion Red blood cells, or RBCs, are routinely used in the transfusion of ill patients to deliver oxygen to tissues. Additive solutions,… October 29, 2012
Donor Red Cell Metabolites May Be Correlated with Post-transfusion RBC Survival Researchers who presented their work at the October AABB Conference in Boston, MA have shown that donor red blood cell… October 22, 2012
Female Sex is not an Independent Risk Factor for Red Blood Cell Alloimmunization Researchers from the Sanquin-LUMC in the Netherlands have concluded that female sex alone is not sufficient to recommend extended crossmatching… October 5, 2012
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