Continuing Education Episode! Continuing Education! Are we ignoring the most important coag factor when transfusing bleeding patients? Melissa Cushing asks, “What about fibrinogen?” In trauma resuscitation, the “golden hour” is the critical first hour...
Continuing Education Episode! Continuing Education! Irradiation prevents TA-GHVD, a lethal transfusion complication. But does it really do what you think it does? Transfusion-associated Graft-versus-Host Disease (TA-GVHD) is a notoriously deadly but thankfully rare...
What’s cold is hot again! Here’s how one facility answered all the questions and implemented trauma whole blood in 2018. It feels like pretty much everyone is discussing cold-stored, low-titer, group O whole blood (LTOWB) today. Trauma surgeons hear about...
Continuing Education Episode! Continuing Education! What if everything we THOUGHT we knew about neonatal platelet transfusion is wrong? Neonates are one of the most heavily transfused populations in the hospital. In fact, the more premature the baby, the more likely...
The new ASFA Guidelines for therapeutic apheresis treatment are now available. Here’s why you need to get your hands on them today! This month, the American Society for Apheresis (ASFA) released a new version of their epic document called “Guidelines on...
