Blood Products

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What’s in Your Transfusion? A Bedside Guide to Blood Products and Their Preparation

Error traps in Pediatric Patient Blood Management in the Perioperative Period

Peri-operative red blood cell transfusion in neonates and infants

Pediatric preoperative blood ordering: when is a type and screen or crossmatch really needed?

Transfusion Strategies for Hemostatic Blood Products in Critically Ill Children: A Narrative Review and Update on Expert Consensus Guidelines

Perioperative Pediatric Erythrocyte Transfusions: Incorporating Hemoglobin Thresholds and Physiologic Parameters in Decision-making

Reference values in healthy children using the Quantra Hemostasis Analyzer, a novel point of care viscoelastic testing device

Pediatric non-red cell blood product transfusion practices: what's the evidence to guide transfusion of the 'yellow' blood products?

How to manage coagulopathies in critically ill patients

Perioperative Considerations in Management of the Severely Bleeding Coagulopathic Patient

Primum, non nocere: Whole blood, prehospital transfusion and anti-D hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn

Activated 4-Factor Prothrombin Complex Concentrate as a Hemostatic Adjunct for Neonatal Cardiac Surgery: A Propensity Score-Matched Cohort Study

Prehospital tranexamic acid for trauma victims

Pediatric Blood Transfusion Therapy and Patient Blood Management

Evaluation of a Pre-Filled Table and a Flowchart-Based Algorithm as Cognitive Aids to Reduce Deviations in Dose Calculation for Intraoperative Red Blood Cell Transfusions in Children-An International Web-Based Simulation

Clinical and laboratory diagnosis of VWD

Management of VWD

WHO: The urgent need to implement patient blood management: policy brief

What’s in Your Transfusion? A Bedside Guide to Blood Products and Their Preparation

Use of Intravenous Albumin: A Guideline From the International Collaboration for Transfusion Medicine Guidelines

RBC Storage Lesions

Association of Anaesthetists guidelines: the use of blood components and their alternatives 2024

Perioperative paediatric patient blood management: a narrative review

The role of platelets in immune-mediated inflammatory disease

ANKRD26-Related Thrombocytopenia

Platelet Transfusion 2025 AABB and ICTMG International Clinical Practice Guidelines

Pediatric Patient Blood Management: Unique Considerations

Perioperative Anticoagulants and Anesthesia Consideration: A Comprehensive Review

Perioperative paediatric patient blood management: a narrative review

Metcalf RA, Nahirniak S, Guyatt G, Bathla A, White SK, Al-Riyami AZ, Jug RC, La Rocca U, Callum JL, Cohn CS et al: Platelet Transfusion: 2025 AABB and ICTMG International Clinical Practice Guidelines. Jama 2025.

2. Kaufman RM, Djulbegovic B, Gernsheimer T, Kleinman S, Tinmouth AT, Capocelli KE, Cipolle MD, Cohn CS, Fung MK, Grossman BJ et al: Platelet transfusion: a clinical practice guideline from the AABB. Annals of internal medicine 2015, 162(3):205–213.

3. Nahirniak S, Slichter SJ, Tanael S, Rebulla P, Pavenski K, Vassallo R, Fung M, Duquesnoy R, Saw CL, Stanworth S et al: Guidance on platelet transfusion for patients with hypoproliferative thrombocytopenia. Transfus Med Rev 2015, 29(1):3–13.

4. Chung HH, Morjaria S, Frame J, Riley M, Zhang AW, Martin SC, Bhatia A, Fenelus M, Fallah F, Inumerables F et al: Rethinking the need for a platelet transfusion threshold of 50 × 109/L for lumbar puncture in cancer patients. Transfusion 2020, 60(10):2243–2249.

5. Kozak M, Hallan DR, Stoltzfus M, Rizk E: Lumbar Puncture in Thrombocytopenia: The Floor Is Not Firm. Cureus 2023, 15(7):e42019.

6. Nellis ME, Karam O, Valentine SL, Bateman ST, Remy KE, Lacroix J, Cholette JM, Bembea MM, Russell RT, Steiner ME et al: Executive Summary of Recommendations and Expert Consensus for Plasma and Platelet Transfusion Practice in Critically Ill Children: From the Transfusion and Anemia EXpertise Initiative-Control/Avoidance of Bleeding (TAXI-CAB). Pediatr Crit Care Med 2022, 23(1):34–51.