Blood transfusion is an essential component in modern healthcare. being irreplaceable resource needs to be appropriately utilized with preferably minimal or zero percent wastage. Only one third of required blood units are collected a Northern Tanzania Hospital, demanding the need for rate discard and products. This study aimed determine reasons discarding products at Zone Transfusion Centre Tan...

sacrificed a lot of his leisure time to the preparation of this book and it deserves to become the logical successor to Physics for the anaesthetist by Sir Robert McIntosh. I can highly recommend it to anaesthetists of all grades, theatre and intensive care technicians and nurses. It is a pleasure to receive this book for review and I cannot imagine that any orthopaedic specialist would think o...

Background: Blood component transfusions are common, often life-saving therapies, however they sometimes (0.2–10% ) result in adverse reactions (ARs). The study aim was to analyse AR frequency and relation transfusion patients treated with blood components as well present recipient, donor, factors that induce ARs. Material methods: retrospective analysis included 650 cases of ARs following whic...

ERS Helen W. Belding, M.D., Winston-Salem, .V.C’. Conrad Maier, M.D., Zurich, Switzerland Robert B. Chodos, M.D., Boston, Mass. Cesar Merino, M.D., Lima, Peru Roger C. Crafts, Ph.D., Cincinnati Milo s Netou ek, M.D., Praha, Czechoslovakia C. R. DasGupta, M.D., Calcutta, India Charles E. Rath, M.D., Washington Solomon Estren, M.D., New York Jean P. Souhier, M.D., Paris, France Ronald H. Girdw-oo...

Detection of ABO blood groups through agglutination is the basis of pre-transfusion testing. However, weak agglutination reactions may be obtained with reagent antibodies and are a result of weak expression of A and B antigens on red blood cell surface which may cause a discrepancy in blood group typing. Here, we report a donor which showed discrepancy between red blood cells (forward) and seru...

Background and Aim: One of the main goals of blood transfusion medicine is to determine the compatibility of the blood products with the patients. Therefore, clinical and laboratory (serologic) evaluations should be done to determine the maximum compatibility (or minimum incompatibility). The most known blood groups is the ABO antigenic system and the most important of them is Rh system. Among ...

this study presented a mini review on folic acid deficiency and recommendations for its supplementation in thalassemia intermedia (ti). ti is a clinical condition which lies between thalassemia major and thalassemia minor. although ti patients may not need regular blood transfusion, precise diagnosis and management are critical for the prevention of clinical complications and quality of life im...