The transfusion audit (i.e. clinical audit) is a quality improvement process that seeks to improve patient care and outcomes, through the systematic review of the use of transfused blood components ...

An international panel of experts co-chaired by Jeffrey Carson, Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, has developed guidelines for new strategies that ...

The US Food and Drug Administration is considering a requirement for blood banks to use a new test that can detect the parasites that cause malaria in certain donors’ blood, and it’s seeking the ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. — Over the last six years, blood center employee Dylan Smith was often asked how frequently he gave blood himself. His answer was always the same: As a gay man, he couldn't. That ...

Objective: To review the pathophysiology of anemia, as well as transfusion-related complications and indications for red blood cell (RBC) transfusion, in critically ill children. Although allogeneic ...

The government has introduced new measures to strengthen oversight of blood safety, focusing on stricter regulation of blood ...