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Pediatria i Medycyna Rodzinna, 2015 Transfusion-related acute lung injury is the leading cause of mortality following transfusion of blood components. Its characteristic feature is acute hypoxaemia during or 6 hours after transfusion.
Jolanta Korsak, Anna Łata
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PLoS ONE, 2012 Background Factors affecting the efficacy of platelet and red blood cell (RBC) transfusion in patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) have not been studied extensively. We aimed to evaluate platelet and RBC transfusion efficacy
Xi Zhang +7 more
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Update and Utilization of Component Therapy in Blood Transfusions [PDF]
Laboratory Medicine, 2010 Transfusion medicine has undergone diverse and fascinating advancements since its initiation in the early 20th century. One of these was the discovery that blood can be divided into individual components and delivered separately. This is imperative in this field where there is high demand but little supply.
Stacy A. Gurevitz
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Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2020 Background Patients with hemorrhagic shock from trauma often require balanced blood product transfusion with red blood cells, plasma, and platelets. Resuscitation with whole blood resuscitation is becoming a common practice.
Ellen Crowe +10 more
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The epidemiology of blood component transfusion in Catalonia, Northeastern Spain
Transfusion, 2011 BACKGROUND: Epidemiologic information on blood component usage can help improve the utilization of transfusion resources.STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: Crosssectional survey in 2007 that included every hospital in Catalonia. Clinical data of blood recipients, including the four‐digit International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical ...
P Madoz +5 more
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JAMA, 2019 Importance Excessive bleeding is a common complication of cardiac surgery. An important cause of bleeding is acquired hypofibrinogenemia (fibrinogen level
Callum J +22 more
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Computer-assisted audits of blood component transfusion
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, 1989 Comprehensive review of clinical blood transfusion practice at a tertiary-care medical center is complicated by the extraordinary number of patients that receive such therapy. Computer-assisted review of the key objective data used in making the decisions about transfusion is necessary to evaluate the process.
David E. Sharp +8 more
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Preoperative predictors of blood component transfusion in living donor liver transplantation.
Asian J Transfus Sci, 2013 Context: Extensive bleeding associated with liver transplantation is a major challenge faced by transplant surgeons, worldwide. Aims: To evaluate the blood component consumption and determine preoperative factors that predict the same in living donor ...
Makroo RN +4 more
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Transfusion, 2020 During the COVID‐19 outbreak, most hospitals deferred elective surgical procedures to allow space for the overwhelming number of COVID‐19 patient admissions, expecting a decrease in routine blood component requirements.
K. Velázquez-Kennedy +9 more
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Predicting the Need for Blood Transfusion in Intensive Care Units with Reinforcement Learning [PDF]
, 2022 As critically ill patients frequently develop anemia or coagulopathy, transfusion of blood products is a frequent intervention in the Intensive Care Units (ICU). However, inappropriate transfusion decisions made by physicians are often associated with increased risk of complications and higher hospital costs.
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