The
Transfusion News email came today. I like this one. It doesn’t overload me with
information, so I can take in what it has to say…
U.S. National Platelet Inventory and Transfusion Practice Survey  | | August 3, 2021 | | Nearly
7,000 units of platelets are needed daily in the U.S., and platelet
transfusions increased by 15.8% from 2017 to 2019. This increase in
platelet transfusions along with the implementation of the Food and Drug
Administration’s (FDA’s) guidance on platelet bacterial risk control
strategies in October 2021 may impact platelet inventory and
availability. A taskforce of transfusion medicine physicians worked ... [Read More] |
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 | | In
this new Transfusion Science Webinar, Dr. Christoph Gassner, professor
of Medical Biology at the Institute for Translational Medicine of the
Private University in the Principality of Liechtenstein, will walk us
through the process of recognizing new blood group systems and antigens.
Using the most recent blood group systems identified by the ISBT from
2019 to 2021, he will show how complex it is for a blood group to be
fully recognized. [Register Now] |
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| July 27, 2021 |
| Annually,
2.4 million units of plasma are transfused in the U.S. Approximately a
quarter to half of plasma transfusions are given prophylactically to
prevent perceived risk of bleeding in patients undergoing invasive
procedures with increased international normalized ratios (INR). In
order to assess the efficacy of this practice, a pilot randomized
clinical trial ...[Read More] |
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