On September 30, 2019, the United States FDA released the long-awaited final guidance regarding bacterial contamination in platelets. Pat Kopko is here to help you understand what to do now! For the past several years, the United States Food and Drug Administration...
Are we ignoring the most important coag factor when transfusing bleeding patients? Melissa Cushing asks, “What about fibrinogen?” NOTE: Continuing Education credit for this episode has expired. See below for details. In trauma resuscitation, the “golden...
Irradiation prevents TA-GHVD, a lethal transfusion complication. But does it really do what you think it does? NOTE: Continuing Education credit for this episode has expired. See below for details. Transfusion-associated Graft-versus-Host Disease (TA-GVHD) is a...
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...
What if everything we THOUGHT we knew about neonatal platelet transfusion is wrong? NOTE: Continuing Education credit for this episode has expired. See below for details. Neonates are one of the most heavily transfused populations in the hospital. In fact, the more...
