Blood Transfusions

Send a textNinja Nerds!In this episode, Rob and Zach dive into CNS infections and walk through how to build a simple framework to separate and identify meningitis, encephalitis, and brain abscess, then link each one to its classic clinical clues, imaging findings, CSF patterns, a ...  Show more

Send a textNinja Nerds!In this episode of the Ninja Nerd Podcast, Rob and Professor Zach team up to tackle one of the most overwhelming topics in all of oncology: antineoplastic agents. This conversation is designed to turn chemo from a massive wall of disconnected drug names int ...  Show more

A central question in platelet transfusion is whether to follow a restrictive or liberal strategy in decisions about which patients should receive platelets. Author Ryan Metcalf, MD, University of Utah, discusses new clinical guidelines for platelet transfusion and more with JAMA ...  Show more

A review of the basics of blood donation, storage, typing, screening, matching, and transfusion. Transfusion medicine series at Critical Concepts Find us on Patreon here! Buy your merch here! 

Today's patient is a woman who develops respiratory distress related to transfusion of red blood cells. Immunologic and non-immunologic complications of transfusion are discussed.

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In this week's episode we’ll learn more about the ASCEND study, which investigated first-line asciminib in chronic phase chronic myeloid leukemia; a new risk score for myeloid neoplasm transformation in patients with clonal cytopenia of undetermined significance; and use of RHD g ...  Show more