Technological advances and new tools may offer the best chance to help underdeveloped blood deserts in the short term.

Prestorage leukoreduction of blood products to < 5.0 x 10 6 white blood cells (WBC)/unit has decreased the incidence of FNHTR from approximately 3% to 0.33% of RBC transfusions and from 30% to 4.6 ...

Among over 300 patients with the highest trauma level activation, the absolute difference in median total 24-hour blood product consumption between the 4F-PCC and placebo groups was 0.2 U (95% CI ...

Like people, pets experiencing medical emergencies sometimes require blood transfusions, and those blood products often come from donations from healthy pets.

New York would be 50th state to let air ambulances transfuse blood products if bill is signed By Rebekah F. Ward, Reporter Updated July 16, 2021 5:08 p.m.

After a transfusion of immunoglobulin and two units of platelets saved the life of Gina Bellavia’s 5-year-old son Theo, who had been diagnosed with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), she vowed ...

“We are definitely aware of patients who have refused blood products from vaccinated donors,” said Dr. Julie Katz Karp, who directs the blood bank and transfusion medicine program at Thomas ...

The change allows New Jersey paramedics to deliver blood products to trauma patients in the crucial minutes after injury ...

You will study serological techniques and apheresis, which is the process of collecting blood and separating it into blood products. You’ll learn how to test blood for antigens and viral diseases, and ...

Last year, when Dallas Fire-Rescue leaders were designing the blood program, they said prehospital blood transfusions could have benefitted nearly 700 injured patients across the city in 2023 alone.