The transfusion audit (i.e. clinical audit) is a quality improvement process that seeks to improve patient care and outcomes, through the systematic review of the use of transfused blood components ...

Blood transfusion therapy remains an indispensable intervention in the management of sickle cell disease (SCD), mitigating life‐threatening complications such as vaso‐occlusive crises and stroke. The ...

Objective: To review the pathophysiology of anemia, as well as transfusion-related complications and indications for red blood cell (RBC) transfusion, in critically ill children. Although allogeneic ...

Pre-hospital transfusion improves patient condition, reduces hospital stays and reduces overall use of blood.

(CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration is considering a requirement for blood banks to use a new test that can detect the parasites that cause malaria in certain donors’ blood, and it’s seeking ...

Jaipur: Health department will launch statewide inspections of blood banks after a Union health ministry order dated Jan 15 ...

On-the-go blood transfusions have been a regular resource for air medical services as they fly trauma patients to hospitals capable of treating them. In Mid-Missouri, though, Cole County EMS, ...