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What are the perspectives for blood donations and blood component transfusion worldwide? A systematic review of time series studies [PDF]

São Paulo Medical Journal, 2020
BACKGROUND: Analysis of the literature suggests that changes relating to blood donations and blood component transfusion are occurring due to the aging of the population. OBJECTIVE: To gain better understanding of the demand and supply of these inputs
Elias Melo de Oliveira, Ilka Afonso Reis
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Machine-learning prediction models for any blood component transfusion in hospitalized dengue patients [PDF]

Hematology, Transfusion and Cell Therapy
Background: Blood component transfusions are a common and often necessary medical practice during the epidemics of dengue. Transfusions are required for patients when they developed severe dengue fever or thrombocytopenia of 10×109/L or less.
Md. Shahid Ansari, Dinesh Jain, Sandeep Budhiraja   +2 more
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Prehospital transfusion strategies in haemorrhagic shock [PDF]

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
Background Massive transfusion protocols are established in-hospital practices for managing haemorrhagic shock, yet critical bleeding accounts for up to 40% of trauma deaths, with half occurring before hospital arrival.
Brian Burns, Brodie Nolan, Ian Ferguson, Michael Peddle, Christopher Partyka, Geoff Healy, Stacy Shackelford, Bryan Cotton   +7 more
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Reticulocyte Maturation and Variant Red Blood Cells

Frontiers in Physiology, 2022
The bone marrow produces billions of reticulocytes daily. These reticulocytes mature into red blood cells by reducing their plasma membrane by 20% and ejecting or degrading residual internal organelles, membranes and proteins not required by the mature ...
Christian J. Stevens-Hernandez, Christian J. Stevens-Hernandez, Christian J. Stevens-Hernandez, Joanna F. Flatt, Joanna F. Flatt, Sabine Kupzig, Lesley J. Bruce, Lesley J. Bruce, Lesley J. Bruce   +8 more
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Optimal and judicious blood transfusion usage - a mandate to save maternal lives [PDF]

New Indian Journal of OBGYN, 2019
Objectives: This study was carried out to see the incidence and indications of transfusion of blood and blood components in obstetrics at a tertiary care hospital.
Surekha Atul Tayade, Pranali Thool, Nitin Gangane, Jaya Kore, Neha Gangane   +4 more
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Assessment of recipients' characteristics, transfusion appropriateness, and utilization pattern of blood and blood products in Jimma Medical Center, Jimma, Ethiopia.

PLoS ONE, 2021
BackgroundAs blood transfusion remains life-saving and is being frequently prescribed, a greater number of its practice is unnecessary or inappropriate. This important clinical intervention is reported as one of the five overused medical treatments, with
Tufa Feyisa, Girum Tesfaye Kiya, Wondimagegn Adissu Maleko   +2 more
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Acute Serum Calcium Level Changes Following Non-Massive Blood and Blood Product Transfusion in Emergency Department; a Cross-sectional Study

Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2023
Introduction: The specific impact on calcium dynamics after non-massive blood transfusions remains relatively unexplored. This study aimed to compare pre- and post-transfusion calcium levels in patients receiving blood and blood product in the emergency
Halil Emre Koyuncuoglu, Basak Yuksek, Sırma Karamercan, Mehmet Akif Karamercan   +3 more
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Autologous transfusions for elective surgery - from existing approaches to upcoming challenges [PDF]

Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2017
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Jevtić Aleksandar, Todorović Milena, Ostojić Gordana, Vasilijić Saša, Pavlović Mirjana, Balint Bela   +5 more
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A Clinical Audit of blood component transfusion practices in Paediatric intensive care unit of a Tertiary Care Hospital, Rawalpindi

Journal of Rawalpindi Medical College, 2022
Background: To audit the practices involved in blood component transfusion in the management of patients in paediatric intensive care unit of our hospital and to determine the appropriateness of transfusion after comparing them with clinical practice ...
Anam Zafar, Nadia Sarosh, Tariq Saeed, Saba Bashir   +3 more
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Transfusion-related acute lung injury – afrequently undiagnosed reaction following transfusion ofblood components

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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