Crystal Hiwalker wonders if her heart and lungs would have kept working if the ambulance crew had been able to give her a transfusion as the blood drained from her body during a stormy,100-mile ride.
supported by the National Institutes of Health under Award Numbers R01GM139967,R21GM151703,and R21GM148931.
Background:Blood transfusions,crucial in managing anemia and coagulopathy in intensive care unit(ICU)settings,require accurate prediction for effective resource allocation and patient risk assessment.However,existing ...
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a shortage of blood supplies for children, resulting in prolonged waiting times for transfusions. This study aims to explore the effect of timely blood transfusion on the e...
Objective: Transfusion of blood and blood products is life-saving in the right indication;however, it may cause serious complications that may lead to mortality. This study aimed to determine the level of knowledge of...
This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81471126 and No.81870868).
Background:Cell salvage has recently been recommended for obstetric use in cases with a high risk of massive hemorrhage during cesarean section(CS).However,limited data are available to support the use of one suction ...
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a ubiquitous DNA-containing herpesvirus causes severe and fatal diseases in immunocompromised patients and a prevalent cause of virus-associated birth defects. Blood transfusion donated...
Objective:To assess the impact of intra-operative cell salvage on outcomes in open nephrectomy.Methods:A retrospective cohort study was performed of all patients undergoing open nephrectomy for suspected malignancy fr...
Erythropoietic protoporphyria(EPP)is an extremely rare disease which is often unrecognized as diagnosis.In the recent article Lui et al describe a patient with a new diagnosis of EPP with severe liver injury.Approxima...
BACKGROUND Perioperative allogeneic blood transfusion is associated with poorer outcomes.AIM To identify the factors that were associated with perioperative transfusion and to examine the impact of perioperative trans...
"Private enterprises must have internal impetus to grow. If you have strong internal impetus driving physical growth, you will have strong hematopoietic function. If you only rely on blood transfusion, you cannot stay...