The aims of severe perioperative bleeding management are three-fold. First, preoperative
identification by anamesis and laboratory testing of those patients for whom the …

Platelets are small anucleated blood cells primarily known for their vital hemostatic role.
Allogeneic platelet concentrates (PCs) collected from healthy donors are an essential …

Blood transfusion and blood conservation (techniques or strategies to avoid the need for
blood) are complementary activities that constitute the clinical arena of transfusion medicine …

Ever since platelet transfusions were shown to reduce mortality from haemorrhage in
patients with acute leukaemia in the 1950s, the use of this therapy has steadily grown to …

Bacterial contamination of transfusion products, especially platelets, is a longstanding
problem that has been partially controlled through modern phlebotomy practices …

We report a transfusion trial of platelets photochemically treated for pathogen inactivation
using the synthetic psoralen amotosalen HCl. Patients with thrombocytopenia were …

The second edition of this best-selling handbook is bigger, more comprehensive, and now
completely current. In addition to thorough updates to the discussions featured in the first …

BACKGROUND Zika virus (ZIKV) is an arthropod‐borne virus (arbovirus) transmitted by
mosquitoes. The potential for ZIKV transmission through blood transfusion was …

The evolution of transfusion medicine into a clinically oriented discipline emphasising
patient care has been accompanied by challenges that need to be faced as specialists look …

BACKGROUND: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS‐CoV) has been
detected in the blood of infected individuals, which may have the potential to contaminate …