evidence based medical practices

Patients with marrow suppression and hypoproliferative anemia represent a challenge for red blood cell transfusions. Iron overload affects the health and quality of life of patients with chronic transfusion needs and patients with primary defects on iron metabolism…

The Myocardial and Ischemia Trial (MINT) was published in December 2023…

This session will explore the characteristics of cryopreserved platelets from laboratory studies, followed by the first presentation of the results from the CLIP-II clinical trial…

Like cardiopulmonary codes, activations of massive transfusion protocols (MTP) are inherently emergent, involve disparate people and disciplines, are rare, and directly and swiftly contribute to patient survival, morbidity, or mortality…

Anesthetic and surgical techniques have greatly improved blood loss outcomes in patients undergoing surgery, especially in heart and liver transplantation, but substantial blood use and critical decision points remain…

Diagnostic-Blood-Loss not only includes MICRO-liters of blood aspirated by an analyzer, or MILLI-liters of blood collected in sample tube, but also the discard-volumes, especially when sampling happens from lines, and also failed draws, unnecessary draws/tests etc…

Testing and pathogen reduction technologies have improved substantially since implementation of donor deferral policies in the 1980s relating to gay, bisexual, and other men who had sex with men (gbMSM)…

Sickle cell disease is an inherited red blood disorder characterized by a beta globin gene mutation that can result in potentially life-threatening vaso-occlusive complications…

AABB Standards 5.30.2, 5.30.3, and 5.30.4 require that Rh negative women who are pregnant or who have been pregnant recently be considered for Rh Immune Globulin administration when the Rh type of the fetus/neonate is unknown or positive when tested for D or weak D…

Traditionally, the field of transfusion medicine encompasses three major clinical specialties: Blood Banking, Apheresis and Donor / Blood Production Services. However, increasingly more transfusion medicine specialists are also including coagulation into their clinical practices…

Transfusion and testing practices within the neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) vary significantly between institutions due to paucity of evidence-based literature…