5. Appropriate Platelet Transfusion and Fresh Frozen Plasma (FFP) Transfusion Therapy

Coagulation and Transfusion Medicine / RATIONAL FRESH FROZEN PLASMA TRANSFUSION Toward Rational Fresh Frozen Plasma Transfusion The Effect of Plasma Transfusion on Coagulation Test Results

Numerous published guidelines encourage appropriate use of fresh frozen plasma (FFP). However, adherence is documented as poor. Therefore, we sought to determine the laboratory effect of FFP administration to patients with an international normalized ratio (INR) less than 1.6 (prothrombin time <1.6 times normal). We found minimally prolonged INRs decreased with treatment of the underlying disea...

Toward rational fresh frozen plasma transfusion: The effect of plasma transfusion on coagulation test results.

Numerous published guidelines encourage appropriate use of fresh frozen plasma (FFP). However, adherence is documented as poor. Therefore, we sought to determine the laboratory effect of FFP administration to patients with an international normalized ratio (INR) less than 1.6 (prothrombin time < 1.6 times normal). We found minimally prolonged INRs decreased with treatment of the underlying dise...

Pulmonary oedema after transfusion with fresh frozen plasma.

Appropriateness of platelet, fresh frozen plasma and cryoprecipitate transfusion in New South Wales public hospitals.

OBJECTIVES To estimate the appropriateness of transfusions of platelets, fresh frozen plasma (FFP) and cryoprecipitate using National Health and Medical Research Council and Australasian Society for Blood Transfusion guidelines (NHMRC/ASBT 2002). DESIGN AND SETTING Three separate retrospective surveys of medical records from 1 January to 31 August 2000 (1147 transfused patients) from 14 hospi...

Guidelines for frozen plasma transfusion

311 ABSTRACT: Guidelines based on a systematic literature review have been developed by the Transfusion Medicine Advisory Group of BC to provide physicians with evidencebased indications for transfusion of frozen plasma. Practices outlined in these guidelines are preferred to practices for blood product use based on anecdotal reports or personal experience, which may lead to unjustified exposur...