Bacterial contamination of blood components: risks, strategies, and regulation. Joint ASH and AABB Educational Session in Transfusion Medicine.
Very instructive article about reasons and prevention of bacterial contamination. The article is predominatly addressed to transfusionists. However, the true prevalence of bacterial contamination and septicemia due to blood transfusion […]
Coronary artery bypass grafting surgery without the routine application of blood products: is it feasible?
The results of this study are rather surprising. The control group receiving FFP required significantly more red cell concentrates (RBCs). One of the reasons explaining this could be that the […]