7 January 2021 (Thursday) - Transfusion News Update

The nice people at Transfusion News sent their update today. Again quite a bit about COVID, but the article on transfusing premature babies was interesting…

If only they would spell “haemoglobin” correctly…!

Higher Hemoglobin Transfusion Thresholds Do Not Improve Outcomes in Preterm Infants

January 5, 2021 Within the last decade, lower hemoglobin transfusion thresholds have been found to be safe and effective for most patient subpopulations. However, preterm, extremely-low-birth-weight [Read More]

Serological Screening of Blood Donations Suggests SARS-CoV-2 May Have Been Introduced in the US before January 2020

December 22, 2020 The first case of SARS-Cov-2 in the United States was reported on January 19, 2020 in Washington State, but phylogenic data and retrospective nucleic acid testing of archived samples suggest it may have been earlier. [Read More]