Craig Melvin, a long-time blood donor, is rolling up his sleeve on live TV for a good cause. The TODAY show co-anchor knows ...

It’s one of the most delicate procedures in modern medicine and for some babies, it’s life-saving. A womb blood transfusion ...

Patients with active hemorrhage benefit when clinicians prioritize volume resuscitation before intubation and limit ED airway ...

A blood transfusion provides healthy blood when a person’s body has difficulty producing it. The amount of time it takes for a blood transfusion varies, but it may take up to 4 hours. Blood is ...

Transfusion patients whose blood came from people who later suffered brain hemorrhages were, themselves, twice as likely to suffer one as well, according to research from Karolinska Institutet in ...

Rates of acute hemolytic transfusion reactions due to erroneous patient identification and specimen collection or labeling have decreased significantly as hospitals have instituted relatively ...

Collince Ogolla was 28 years old when, as a laboratory technologist, he was assigned to a Regional Blood Transfusion Centre during the Covid-19 pandemic. Like the other 54 professionals in his cohort, ...

Whether a restrictive or liberal transfusion strategy offers the best outcomes after acute brain injury has been the subject of ongoing debate. Will publication of a new study end it?

This blood transfusion reaction develops very quickly. It happens when antibodies in the donor blood, such as human leukocyte antibodies, react with the recipient’s leukocytes, or white blood cells.

Although in our trial the withholding of prophylactic platelet transfusion before CVC placement led to an overall cost reduction, it should also be considered that the majority of patients in the ...