15 May 2018 (Tuesday) - Transfusion Evidence Library Update

The Transfusion Evidence Library email arrived today. Loads of interesting stuff…

Most important new publications

Effect of age of red cells for transfusion on patient outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
McQuilten Z K,  French C J, et al., Transfusion Medicine Reviews 2018

Efficacy of prehospital administration of tranexamic acid in trauma patients: A meta-analysis of the randomized controlled trials
El-Menyar A, Sathian B, et al. The American Journal of Emergency Medicine 2018

The efficacy and safety of multiple-dose oral tranexamic acid on blood loss following total hip arthroplasty: a randomized controlled trial
Cao G,  Huang Q, et al. International Orthopaedics 2018

The effect of iron chelation therapy on overall survival in sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia: a systematic review
Ballas S K, Zeidan A M, et al. American Journal of Hematology 2018

Risks of restrictive red blood cell transfusion strategies in patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD): a meta-analysis
Cortes-Puch I,  Wiley B M, et al. Transfusion Medicine 2017

Age of transfused blood in critically ill adult trauma patients: a prespecified nested analysis of the age of blood evaluation randomized trial
Green R S,  Erdogan M, et al. Transfusion 2018

Haemostatic therapies for acute spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage
Al-Shahi Salman R,  Law Z K, et all. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2018.

Restrictive versus liberal strategy for red blood-cell transfusion: A systematic  review and meta-analysis in orthopaedic patients
Gu W J,  Gu X P, et al. The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 2018.

Antifibrinolytics for heavy menstrual bleeding
Bryant-Smith A C,  Lethaby A, et al. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2018.

Article of the Month (May 2018) Immediate effects of blood donation on physical and cognitive performance - A randomized controlled double blinded trial Eliassen H S,  Hervig T, et al. The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

 

… the operative word is “interesting”. Is this *really* CPD? It is all interesting, but is it actually helping me develop professionally? Maybe if they had one or two articles about difficult antibody investigations, grouping discrepancies… it is *all* clinical stuff.