Transfusion risk reduction: Testing for bacteria

Risk-Reduction Strategies for Platelet Transfusion in the United States

Despite bacterial culture of platelets, transfusion-associated bacteremia/sepsis (TABS) may occur with a frequency of approximately 1/60,000 platelet transfusions, while an emerging transfusion-transmitted infection (TTI) could reproduce the epidemic of transfusion-transmitted human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the future. As platelet pathogen-reduction (PR) systems licensed in Europe may ev...

Hot Blood for Transfusion

The importance of warming up the whole blood before transfusion , parti -cularly when large amounts of stored blood is used for patients in shock or under general anesthesia is discussed. Var­ious methods of Warming blood is presn­tcd and the use of high frequency Ele­ctromagnetic field for this purpose and its adv1mtagcs is introduced. 

Molecular Testing for Blood Groups in Transfusion Medicine

Pretransfusion testing and transfusion of uncrossmatched erythrocytes.

191 January 2015 B LOOD transfusion is the most frequent procedure performed during hospital admissions1 and many transfusions are administered in the perioperative period, often on a time-sensitive basis. In this clinical commentary, key points related to pretransfusion testing are reviewed with an emphasis on the electronic crossmatch, as well as the use of uncrossmatched erythrocytes in situ...

ABC of transfusion. Infectious complications of blood transfusion: bacteria and parasites.

Bacteria and parasites transmissible by blood transfusion Long before the transmission ofHIV became a prominent potential hazard Bacteria of blood transfusion, considerable skill in preventing the transmission of * Treponema pallidum (syphilis) infection by transfusion had already been developed in the Blood * Brucellosis (donors giving a history are Transfusion Service. The first and most impo...