Swiss investigators conducted a prospective interventional study, designed to reduce blood transfusions after such orthopedic procedures. A 1-year control period (involving 208 patients ...

Indeed, venesection is rarely used to boost platelet count and may be considered in conjunction with platelet transfusion in patients requiring dental or other surgery. The main limitation of our ...

Objectives Massive transfusion protocols (MTPs) may improve survival in patients with uncontrolled haemorrhage. An MTP was introduced into the Dutch transfusion guidelines in 2011, the ninth edition ...

Introduction In patients with transient thrombocytopenia being treated with high-dose chemotherapy followed by stem cell rescue—haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), prophylactic ...

A severe exophtalmia led the doctors to question the transfusion strategy. Over 7.5 months, the child received 56 red blood cell units and 31 platelet units. He was hospitalised 50 times. Indication ...

We performed an international, prospective, observational cohort study (International Neonatal Transfusion Point Prevalence study) to evaluate current red blood cell (RBC), platelet and plasma ...

has been observed to follow transfusions of platelets from compatible, as well as from random, donors. 16,17 It has been suggested that the administration of platelets should be restricted as much ...

After the transfusion of compatible maternal P1 A1-negative platelets, there was a sustained improvement in the platelet count and cessation of hemorrhage. Exchange transfusion combined with ...

Surgery or a blood or platelet transfusion may be necessary in extreme cases. The typical platelet count for adults is 150,000 to 450,000 platelets per microliter of blood. Is 120,000 a low ...

There are red blood cells, plasma and platelets that can be separated ... are tagged and scanned to patients' charts, preparing to be sent out for transfusion. Donated blood is used to help ...

And your blood contains cells even smaller than red blood cells called platelets ... a blood transfusion is done with only part of the blood. You might be given one or more of these blood parts based ...

“Our crews see the need for pre-hospital transfusions on a regular basis and we know this will lead to better outcomes for patients in the field.” In many trauma situations in the ...