ABC of transfusion. Fetal and neonatal transfusion.

Ill babies are more likely to be transfused than any other patients The special care baby unit presents unique problems for the physician caring for ill, newborn infants. These infants, both mature and preterm, are more likely to be transfused with blood products than any other group of patients. The indications for tranfusion and the techniques used by the blood bank to provide for these needs have changed appreciably during recent years.