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Cost of Blood Loss and Transfusion

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Safety and effects of two red blood cell transfusion strategies in pediatric cardiac surgery patients: a randomized controlled trial. (opens new window)

de Gast-Bakker DH, de Wilde RB, Hazekamp MG, Sojak V, Zwaginga JJ, Wolterbeek R, de Jonge E, Gesink-van der Veer BJ.

Source‎: Intensive Care Med 2013;39(11):2011-9.

Indexed‎: PubMed 23995984

DOI‎: 10.1007/s00134-013-3085-7

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23995984 (opens new window)

Pediatric red blood cell transfusions increase resource use. (opens new window)

Goodman AM, Pollack MM, Patel KM, Luban NL.

Source‎: J Pediatr 2003;142(2):123-7.

Indexed‎: PubMed 12584531

DOI‎: 10.1067/mpd.2003.14

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12584531 (opens new window)

Effects of a restrictive blood transfusion policy on outcomes in children with burn injury. (opens new window)

Palmieri TL, Lee T, O'mara MS, Greenhalgh DG.

Source‎: J Burn Care Res 2007;28(1):65-70.

Indexed‎: PubMed 17211202

DOI‎: 10.1097/BCR.0B013E31802C895E

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17211202 (opens new window)

The impact of restrictive transfusion practices on hemodynamically stable critically ill children without heart disease: a secondary analysis of the age of blood in children in the PICU trial. (opens new window)

Steffen KM, Tucci M, Doctor A, Reeder R, Caro JJ, Muszynski J, Spinella P, Pediatric Critical Care Blood Research Network (BloodNet) subgroup of the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network

Source‎: Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2023 1;24(2):84-92.

Indexed‎: PubMed 36661416

DOI‎: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000003128

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36661416/ (opens new window)

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The medical section of this website is designed as an informational resource primarily for use by clinicians and other health-care professionals. It provides neither medical advice nor treatment recommendations and does not substitute for an appropriately qualified health-care provider. The clinical literature cited is not published by Jehovah’s Witnesses, but it outlines transfusion-alternative strategies that might be considered. It is the responsibility of each qualified health-care provider to maintain awareness of new information, discuss options for care, and assist patients in making choices in accord with their medical condition, wishes, values, and beliefs. Not all listed strategies are appropriate or acceptable to all patients.

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