In 2012, Frederick Memorial Hospital (FMH) revitalized their blood utilization guidelines to
follow a more restrictive approach to blood product transfusions. With help from the …

Objectives: Summarize the strategies used to ensure blood product safety. Identify common
laboratory testing that has improved blood product safety. Identify the most common adverse …

Background: Compared to blood component safety, the administration of blood may not be
as safe as intended. The German Interdisciplinary Task Force for Clinical Hemotherapy …

INTRODUCTION Blood centers are concerned with the collection, processing, testing,
storage, inventory management, and shipping of blood components, and hospital blood …

Blood Transfus 2012; 10: 1-3 DOI 10.2450/2011.0056-11 ensure the availability of required
blood and blood products at all times;-liaison with the relevant department to ensure a …

The US blood supply is safer today than at any time in history, thanks to advances in donor
screening, improved viral marker tests, automated data systems, and changes in transfusion …

Millions of units of blood products are transfused annually to patients in the United States.
Red blood cells are transfused to improve oxygen-carrying capacity in patients with or at …

Transfusion reactions are defined as adverse events associated with the transfusion of
blood products (Table 1). Nearly 21 million blood components are transfused each year in …

Blood products are a limited resource that should be used sparingly. Although packed red
blood cells are lifesaving, there are known harms from transfusion, including circulatory …

The purpose of this research was to identify effective means to utilize blood product
resources within a hospital laboratory. A retrospective review of six years of blood utilization …