LT Goodnough - Critical care medicine, 2003 - journals.lww.com
Conclusions Substantial advances have been achieved in blood safety during the last 20 yrs, particularly for transfusion-transmitted viral infections. Currently, the most serious known …
MA Refaai, N Blumberg - Best Practice & Research Clinical …, 2013 - Elsevier
Due to its significant role in saving lives, blood transfusion became one of the most commonly used therapies in medicine. In the USA red blood cell transfusions, for instance …
NLC Luban - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past decades, the incidence of clinically significant transfusion‐transmitted diseases has been dramatically reduced. These reductions have occurred because of a …
JE Hendrickson, CD Hillyer - Anesthesia & Analgesia, 2009 - journals.lww.com
As infectious complications from blood transfusion have decreased because of improved donor questionnaires and sophisticated infectious disease blood screening, noninfectious …
As screening for transfusion-associated infections has improved, non-infectious complications of transfusion now cause the majority of morbidity and mortality associated …
Blood transfusions are life-saving therapies; however, they can result in adverse events that can be infectious or, more commonly, noninfectious. The most common noninfectious …
JP AuBuchon and MS Kruskall ver the last decade, the efforts of numerous research groups have been directed at decreasing the risk of transmission of viruses through transfusion …
THE BLOOD SUPPLY IN THE UNITED States and other developed countries has never been as safe as it is now. During the past several decades, there have been dramatic …
R Dodd, WK Roth, P Ashford, EM Dax, G Vyas - Biologicals, 2009 - Elsevier
Advances in safety of blood transfusion in clinical practice principally relate to preventing transfusion-transmitted infections (TTI). Epidemiological studies of TTI have resulted in the …