OBJECTIVE: To determine the most effective, evidence-based approach to the use of platelet transfusions in patients with cancer. OUTCOMES: Outcomes of interest included prevention of morbidity and ...

A new guideline for administering platelet transfusions to adult patients emphasizes judicious use of the procedure to reduce patient risk and conserve resources, according to an article published ...

We critically reviewed every NICU blood component transfusion (packed erythrocytes, platelets, frozen plasma (FP) and cryoprecipitate) administered during a one-year period. This was done to determine ...

Kolkata: The state health department has issued an extensive guideline on platelet transfusion. Officials said as and when the number of dengue patients rises, we get a good number whose platelet ...

Sparrow Health System in Lansing, Michigan, has won a 2018 HIMSS Davies Enterprise Award for its work using evidence-based best practices to reduce non-emergent blood transfusions. Sparrow recognized ...

With the reports of inadvertent use of platelet on some dengue patients, the state health department on Friday re-circulated the platelet transfusion guidelines to all government and private hospitals ...

People hospitalized with certain rare blood cell disorders frequently receive a treatment that is associated with a two- to fivefold increase in death, according to a new study that reviewed hospital ...

THE hemorrhagic tendency of thrombocytopenic animals can be controlled temporarily by transfusions of fresh platelet concentrates. 1,2 The clinical value of platelet transfusions has previously been ...