Background: Increasing demand for blood and blood products mostly due to increased individual access to health care services rises the concerns over lack of adequate amounts of blood products. It also can impose additional costs to blood transfusion centers and may increase transfusion-related complications. We aimed to investigate the impact of the Iranian Blood Transfusion Organization (IBTO)...

OBJECTIVE To briefly review the characteristics of prions, the risk of transmission and implications for infection control in dentistry. METHODS The literature on prion disease in the context of dentistry up to March 2005 was reviewed using the PubMed, MEDLINE, Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature, Google Scholar databases and the Web sites of the departments of health of co...

background : using blood and blood components is a common therapeutic procedure in hospitals. nurses have an important role in a safe blood transfusion. therefore, it is crucial for nurses to have sufficient knowledge of situations, amount and methods of using blood components, possible side effects and necessary cares. this study investigated nurses’ knowledge of blood transfusion. methods : t...

conclusions the etiology of exchange transfusion was unidentified in most cases; however, abo incompatibility was the most prevalent cause of hyperbilirubinemia. complications were common after exchange transfusion and should be considered carefully. patients and methods a retrospective study was performed on 28 days old infants who received exchange transfusion due to severe hyperbilirubinemia...

background: mostly seen toxicities following vancomycin are ototoxicity and nephrotoxicity. we here report a very low birth weight preterm neonate who developed severe episodes of apnea after accidental iatrogenic vancomycin overdose, responsive to treatment with double volume exchange transfusion. case report: a preterm neonate weighing 1380 grams received two doses of 10-fold of the normal do...

results of 153 patients, 96.8% received pc and 54.9% transfused ffp during or after surgery. most of the transfusions were done after operation in intensive care unit (icu). also, 20% and 17% of the patients underwent transfusion of more than 6 units of pc and ffp, respectively. the mean left ventricular ejection fraction of the patients was 42.5 ± 10.9%. a significant number of patients had an...

introduction : regular blood transfusions for patients with thalassemia major have improved their overall survival, but carry a definite risk of being infected with blood born viruses especially hepatitis b and c. nowadays, it has remained as main health concern about these patients. in this study, we tried to define the prevalence rate of hepatitis b and c and survey the related risk factors a...