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


Massive Transfusion/Hemorrhage Protocol

Massive Transfusion in Pediatric Patients

Massive transfusion in pediatric trauma-does more blood predict mortality?

Plasma and Platelet Transfusion Strategies in Critically Ill Children Following Severe Trauma, Traumatic Brain Injury, and/or Intracranial Hemorrhage: From the Transfusion and Anemia EXpertise Initiative-Control/Avoidance of Bleeding

Pediatric Massive Transfusion: A Systematic Review

Massive Transfusion Protocols for Pediatric Patients: Current Perspectives

Patient Blood Management Guidelines: Module 6 Neonatal and Paediatrics

Boston Children’s Hospital que Massive Hemorrhage Guidelines

Single-Center Use of Prothrombin Complex Concentrate in Pediatric Patients

Prothrombin Complex Concentrates to Treat Coagulation Disturbances: An Overview With a Focus on Use in Infants and Children

Prothrombin Complex Concentrate Utilization in Children's Hospitals

Prothrombin complex concentrate (PCC) for treatment of trauma-induced coagulopathy: systematic review and meta-analyses

Changes in serial platelet counts following massive blood transfusion in pediatric patients

Intravenous Calcium to Decrease Blood Loss During Intrapartum Cesarean Delivery: A Randomized Controlled Trial


Reducing blood draw anemia

Effect of using smaller blood volume tubes and closed blood collection devices on total blood loss in patients undergoing major cardiac and vascular surgery

Small-volume tubes to reduce anemia and transfusion (STRATUS): a pilot study

Interventions to prevent iatrogenic anemia: a Laboratory Medicine Best Practices systematic review

Connolly SJ, Crowther M, Eikelboom JW, et al. Full study report of andexanet alfa for bleeding associated with factor Xa inhibitors. N Engl J Med. 2019 Apr 4; 380(14): 1326-1335. PMID: 30730782

Siegal DM, Curnutte JT, Connolly SJ, et al. Andexanet alfa for the reversal of factor Xa inhibitor activity. N Engl J Med. 2015 Dec 17; 373(25): 2413-24. PMID: 26559317

Measurement of Intraoperative Blood Loss in Pediatric Orthopaedic Patients: Evaluation of a New Method

Comparison of common perioperative blood loss estimation techniques: a systematic review and meta-analysis