Analysis of Blood and Blood Component Wastage and its Reasons among Various Departments in a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital in Southern India [PDF]
National Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2022 Introduction: The main aim of many blood centers are to supply sufficient amount of safe blood and blood components whenever required. Shortage of blood may be due to low donation rate, inadequate storage, improper transportation and wastage at ward ...
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Effectiveness of blood transfusions and risk factors for mortality in children aged from 1 month to 4 years at the Bon Marche Hospital, Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo [PDF]
, 2012 Objective To assess the effectiveness of blood transfusions in a hospital of north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Methods Prospective study of children admitted for severe anaemia.
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To transfuse, or not to transfuse: that is the question
Critical Care and Resuscitation, 2009 Transfusion practice, like medical practice in its entirety, has evolved rapidly over the past few decades. Recent research on clinical outcomes has examined the impact of blood transfusion on critically ill patients, patients with trauma, those undergoing cardiac surgery, those experiencing acute coronary syndromes, oncology patients and others ...
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Anaemia and blood transfusion in African children presenting to hospital with severe febrile illness [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: Severe anaemia in children is a leading cause of hospital admission and a major cause of mortality in sub-Saharan Africa, yet there are limited published data on blood transfusion in this vulnerable group.
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Hemostatic Activity of Canine Never-Frozen Liquid Plasma Collected for Transfusion
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022 This study measured the changes of hemostatic activity in liquid plasma (LP) over 7 days of storage. Five canine plasma units, divided into two aliquots were evaluated: one stored refrigerated at 2–6°C as never-frozen LP and one frozen at −18°C as fresh ...
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Transfusion and Auto-Transfusion [PDF]
The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 1876 n ...
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Clinical experience with ferric carboxymaltose in the management of anemia in acute gastrointestinal bleeding [PDF]
, 2019 Objective The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy and safety of intravenous ferric carboxymaltose (FCM) following hospitalization for acute gastrointestinal bleeding (AGIB) in the context of a restrictive transfusion strategy.
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Effect of washing units of canine red blood cells on storage lesions
Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 2022 Background In humans, washing stored blood products before transfusion reduces storage lesions and incidence of transfusion reactions, but the effectiveness of washing canine blood is unknown. Objectives The objective was to determine if manually washing
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