Blood transfusions remain common practice in the critical care and surgical settings. Transfusions carry significant risks, including risks for transmission of infectious agents and immune suppression. Transmission of bacterial infections, although rare, is the most common adverse event with transfusion. The risk for transmission of viral infections has decreased over time, clearly because test...

OBJECTIVE Fresh whole blood (FWB) and red blood cells (RBCs) are transfused to injured casualties in combat support hospitals. We evaluated the risks of FWB and RBCs transfused to combat-related casualties. DESIGN Retrospective chart review. SETTING Deployed U.S. Army combat support hospitals. SUBJECTS Donors of FWB and recipients of FWB and RBCs. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS The storage ag...

Hepatitis A is a disease of worldwide distribution which occurs in endemic and epidemic form and is transmitted primarily by person-to-person contact through the fecal-oral route. Common source epidemics due to contamination of food are relatively common, and water-borne epidemics have been described less frequently. The presumed etiologic agent of hepatitis A has now been visualized by immune ...

Regular blood transfusion is one of the most important and emergency treatment methods for thalassemia patients. This category patients considered sensitive to infection because their continued survival linked transfusion, therefore possibility great, especially in light war deterioration health services Yemen. Among this hepatitis B virus, which causes serious complications such as acute hepat...