BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS to treat anemia can have a,significant impact on patient outcomes. Because transfusion practices vary among healthcare providers, many clinicians question the best practice for blood product use. Blood management is defined as a patient-centered standard of care in which strategies ...
BACKGROUND Best practice alerts (BPAs) provide clinical decision support (CDS) at the point of care to reduce unnecessary blood product transfusions, yet substantial transfusions continue outside of recommended guidelines. OBJECTIVE To understand why providers order blood transfusions outside of recomme...
Before hanging a transfusion, the registered nurse must check the unit with ANOTHER RN or with a licensed practical (vocational) nurse, depending on agency policy. Checking blood products is not in the unit secretary's or phlebotimist's scope of practice. The physician assistant is not another...
Red blood cell transfusion in clinical practice. of nucleated cell dose on overall survival of unrelated cord blood transplantation for patients with severe acquired aplastic anemia: a study by Eurocord ... HG Klein - 《Lancet》 被引量: 617发表: 2007年 Cord Blood Transplantation Study (COBLT)...
Patient blood management programs should be promoted to develop clearer hospital transfusion guidelines to strive for optimization of patient hemoglobin and iron stores, and to train for more restrictive RBC policy. The results reported thus far need to be critically reviewed by a panel of experts, ...
A new blood transfusion strategy developed on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan looks like the best way to save civilians bleeding out fromsevere wounds, a new study reports. A blood transfusion "recipe" containing equal parts plasma, platelets and red blood cells is the most effective tre...
describe that, on average, 8 of 10 ICUs transfused RBCswhen the patient’s median hemoglobin value was greater than7.0 g/dL. Although case mix, ICU, and hospital characteristicslikely explain some variability, this work emphasizes the opportunity to harmonize transfusion practice with guidelines. ...
The medical director per American Association of Blood Banks has responsibility and authority for all medical and technical policies, processes, and procedures, and for the consultative and support services that relate to the care and safety of donors and/or transfusion recipients. As such, physician...
A new study suggests that blood transfusions for hospitalized cardiac patients should be a last resort because they double the risk of infection and increase by four times the risk of death.
Dangerous universal donors; observations on destruction of recipient's A cell after transfusion of group O blood containing high ... DM Ervin,LE Young - 《Blood》 被引量: 84发表: 1950年 Informed Consent for Blood Transfusion: What Do Medicine Residents Tell? What Do Patients Understand? Blood...