Blood Transfusions

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Send us Fan MailNinja Nerds!In this episode of the Ninja Nerd Podcast, Zach and Rob walk you through a high-yield, case-based approach to Hepatitis C, focusing on how to recognize it, diagnose it properly, and understand why it so commonly becomes a chronic disease. This is one o ...  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