To help ensure the accuracy of our findings, we conducted our study in a highly specialized oncology service. We introduced a questionnaire (see Table 1), jointly designed by the nursing staff and the ...

Acute immune intravascular hemolysis can also represent a delayed hemolytic transfusion reaction. This is a consideration in this case, because the patient received 2 units of red cells 2 weeks before ...

Blood transfusion, which are usually life-saving procedures, can become life-threatening if they trigger an allergic reaction. However, the mechanisms behind allergic transfusion reactions are not ...

Blood transfusion, which are usually life-saving procedures, can become life-threatening if they trigger an allergic reaction. However, the mechanisms behind allergic transfusion reactions are not ...

Houston-based MD Anderson Cancer Center’s hemovigilance unit was born from a blood transfusion-related event that led to a patient’s death in 2019. Kimberly Klein, MD, medical director of the unit, ...

Why is the MATIC-2 Trial being conducted? Trauma is the leading cause of death in children. There have been no large-scale clinical trials to guide the best way to resuscitate children with ...

Criteria for superior efficacy not met in trial involving air ambulances ...

Allergic transfusion reactions (ATRs), a potentially life-threatening side effect of blood transfusions with unclear mechanisms, may be linked to food allergies in pediatric patients as per a recent ...