Healthcare professionals need to know about blood transfusion. The purpose of this study is determine the experiences nursing students on transfusion and their opinions influencing factors. In qualitative study, sample consisted 12 second, third, fourth-year who were continuing education at a state university. data collected by conducting in-depth interviews via semi-structured interview form. ...

BACKGROUND Preoperative autologous blood donation is commonly used to reduce exposure to allogeneic transfusions among patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery. However, this technique is associated with an overall increase in transfusions (allogeneic or autologous). The authors assessed the impact of transfusion decision-making on the effectiveness of preoperative autologous donation in re...

5 Maintain plasma colloid osmotic pressure "Massive transfusion" is arbitrarily defined as the replacement of the patient's total blood volume by stored homologous bank blood in less than 24 hours. It is a medical emergency, usually occurring in the accident department, the operating theatre, or the obstetric department, when a patient presents with overwhelming haemorrhage and acute hypovolaem...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of pre-exchange transfusion albumin priming in neonates with non-hemolytic hyperbilirubinemia. DESIGN Single center, randomized controlled trial. SETTING Level III Neonatal unit. PARTICIPANTS Fifty healthy term and late preterm neonates with non-hemolytic hyperbilirubinemia requiring exchange transfusion. INTERVENTIONS 5 mL/kg of either 20% human album...

OBJECTIVE To determine the incidence and appropriateness of use of allogenic packed red blood cell (RBC) transfusion in Australian and New Zealand intensive care practice. SETTING Intensive care units of 18 Australian and New Zealand hospitals: March 2001. DESIGN Prospective, observational, multicentre study. METHODS All admissions to participating intensive care units were screened and a...

Non-haemolytic transfusion reactions are the most common type of transfusion reaction and include transfusion-related acute lung injury, transfusion-associated circulatory overload, allergic reactions, febrile reactions, post-transfusion purpura and graft-versus- host disease. Although life-threatening anaphylaxis occurs rarely, allergic reactions occur most frequently. If possible, even mild t...

background: bilirubin encephalopathy is a clinical syndrome, associated with bilirubin toxicity in the central nervous system, resulting in chronic and permanent sequelae. it has been estimated that approximately 60% and 80% of term and preterm newborns develop jaundice in the first week of life, respectively. in the present study, we aimed to determine the prevalence, morbidity, and mortality ...

objective to investigate association between nosocomial infection, blood products transfusion and microorganisms responsible in patients who hospitalized at icu (intensive care unit). patients and methods in this prospective study, 217 patients who were admitted to the icu of taleghani hospital between august 2010 and august 2011 were included. nosocomial infections were defined using the conta...

background :severe neonatal hyperbilirubinemia is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. this study was conducted to investigate the causes of severe hyperbilirubinemia leading to exchange transfusion (et) from march 2009 to march 2011 in bahrami children hospital, tehran, iran in order to establish guidelines to prevent profound jaundice & et.   methods : 94 neonates underwent et...

background: various adverse effects of homologous blood transfusion detected particularly in open heart surgery, in which it is frequently used, lead researchers to study on autologous blood use and to evaluate the patient’s blood better. due to the complications of homologous blood transfusion, development of techniques that utilize less transfusion has become inevitable. we aimed to evaluate ...