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Narrative Reviews

Red Cell Transfusion

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Sections

General | Monitoring & Investigations | Therapies

General

General

Wijesuriya. Optimizing Red Blood Cell Mass, the First Pillar of PBM – First Things First. J Card Crit Care TSS 2024;8:11-5
Gandhi. Patient Blood Management: Moving Above and Beyond the Optimal Use of Blood! J Card Crit Care TSS 2024;8:28-32
Shander. A Global Definition of Patient Blood Management. Anesth Analg 2022;135(3):476-488

General

Raza. Pitfalls of reasoning in hospital-based transfusion medicine. Transfus Med 2024;epublished October 15th

Transfusion Thresholds

Schaap. Ultra-Restrictive Transfusion Thresholds in Critically Ill Adults: Are We Ready for the Next Step? Transfus Med Rev 2025;39(2):150893

Background

Pathophysiology

Conditions

Obstetrics

Holland. Ethical and Medicolegal Issues: When Obstetric Patients Who Refuse Blood Products Change Their Minds. Anesth Analg 2024;138(1):89-95

Pre-Hospital Trauma

McNeilly. Prehospital Blood Administration in Traumatic Hemorrhagic Shock. JACEP Open 2025;6(2):2100041

Complications

Transfusion-Associated Circulatory Overload

Semple. Transfusion-associated circulatory overload and transfusion-related acute lung injury. Blood 2019;133(17):1840-1853

Semple. Transfusion-associated circulatory overload and transfusion-related acute lung injury. Blood 2019;133(17):1840-1853

Noninfectious Transfusion-Associated Adverse Events

Goel. Noninfectious transfusion-associated adverse events and their mitigation strategies. Blood 2019;133(17):1831–1839

Monitoring & Investigations

General

Therapies

Blood Bank

Brigmon. Walking blood bank: a plan to ensure self-sufficiency in an era of blood shortage. Trauma Surg Acute Care Open 2024;9:e001151

Last updated April 25th, 2025