New Blood Transfusions in Shock

COVID-19 pandemic: Challenges and approaches in blood transfusions

One of the goals of the Iranian Blood Transfusion Organization is to provide adequate healthy blood and reduce the risk of various viral and bacterial transmission infections. With the removal of alternative blood donation, all blood units and blood products are provided through voluntary blood donation in Iran. The Blood Transfusion Organization screens the donated blood according to standard ...

making blood transfusions safer

transfusion of blood products from an infected person with aids, is meant to infect recipient. blood products such as whole blood, red blood cells, platelets, plasma, frozen blood precipitate, factor viii, factor ix, can be infected with hiv. transmissions from blood factors can be seen in plasma from thousands of donors that were collected in a container and were used to treat hemophilia. bloo...

Blood transfusions in septic shock: is 7.0g/dL really the appropriate threshold?

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the immediate effects of red blood cell transfusion on central venous oxygen saturation and lactate levels in septic shock patients with different transfusion triggers. METHODS We included patients with a diagnosis of septic shock within the last 48 hours and hemoglobin levels below 9.0 g/dL Patients were randomized for immediate transfusion with hemoglobin concentration...

Blood Transfusions under War Conditions

T HE use of human blood in the practice of medicine dates back many centuries. Successful blood transfusions probably were first performed in the middle of the seventeenth century. In some instances the blood of animals was employed, but such a procedure frequently resulted in serious reactions; transfusions of human blood were more successful. Even these were sub. ject to two serious drawbacks...

THE EFFECt OF BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS

Field, Rickard, and H u t t (1, 2) have repor ted the occurrence of a sex-llnked hemorrhagic disease in male dogs similar to hemophil ia in man. The chief symptoms were due to subcutaneous hematomas and hemarthroses. Deformities f requent ly occurred. Mos t of the pups affected with the disease died during the first 12 weeks of life. Of 17 affected males described, none were reared to matur i t...

Jehovah's Witnesses and blood transfusions.