27 November 2023 (Monday) - Transfusion Evidence Library Update

The nice people at the Transfusion Evidence Alert sent their update today. Again tranexamic acid featured… that stuff really is one of the wonders of our age.

Personally I liked the talk about not taking such a great volume of blood from patients for various testing… surely it stands to reason that the more you exsanguinate a patient, the more transfusions they will need?

TOP ARTICLES

Effect of Benson's relaxation technique versus music intervention on physiological parameters and stress of children with thalassemia during blood transfusions: A randomized controlled trial.
Badr, E. A., et al. (2023). Journal of Pediatric Nursing. [Record in progress].

Cerebral and intestinal oxygen saturation of different volumes of red blood cell transfusion in preterm infants.
Chen, R., et al. (2023). Transfusion and Apheresis Science. [Record in progress].

Tranexamic acid for percutaneous nephrolithotomy.
Cleveland, B., et al. (2023). The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

Haemostatic therapies for stroke due to acute, spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage.
Eilertsen, H., et al. (2023). The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

Intravenous iron administration before cardiac surgery reduces red blood cell transfusion in patients without anaemia.
Friedman, T., et al. (2023). British Journal of Anaesthesia.

Effect of red blood cell storage time in pediatric cardiac surgery patients: a subgroup analysis of a randomized controlled trial.
Martin, S. M., et al. (2023). JTCVS Open.

Convalescent plasma for Covid-19-Induced ARDS in mechanically ventilated patients.
Misset, B., et al. (2023). The New England Journal of Medicine.

Small-volume blood collection tubes to reduce transfusions in intensive care: the STRATUS randomized clinical trial.
Siegal, D. M., et al. (2023). JAMA.

Allogeneic serum eye drops: a randomized clinical trial to evaluate the clinical effectiveness of two drop sizes.
Vermeulen, C., et al. (2023). Ophthalmology and Therapy.