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Excellent session on emergency paediatric transfusion #AABB20. Cyril Jacquot talking on pre hospital transfusion and summarising the literature.
28 day mortality following haemorrhage is higher in children than adults (unpublished data and substudies from PROPPR and PROMMTT)
28 day mortality following haemorrhage is higher in children than adults (unpublished data and substudies from PROPPR and PROMMTT)
Observational studies of large numbers of patients but with only very small numbers of paediatric patients suggest that pre hospital blood is not associated with an excess of transfusion reactions and in some studies is thought to have improved survival.
Whole blood, group O, high titre neg, used in paediatrics in Pittsburgh appears to be safe with no haemolysin-mediated haemoylsis in non group O patients (Leeper et al JAMA Pediatrics 2018) ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Next up @KreuterMD @AShmooklerMD @HermelinMD on transfusion Twitter #AABB20 . So excited for this session!
Concentrating hard on virtual journal clubs; I haven't yet got the hang of this! 🙈
Thank you @AShmooklerMD ; will be looking into Tweet Deck before any more journal clubs!
