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🅰️🅱️🅾️🆎#Blooducation colleagues: Fantastic new @bloodbankguy 🎧podcast with Dr. Mark Yazer on the topic of Whole Blood in Trauma Resuscitation discussing benefits and safety, and review of many important published trials. Listen now --> BBGuy.org/091. 
Dr. Yazer explains some major benefits of #wholeblood. Balanced resuscitation in just 👜ONE bag, making logistics so much easier. There are fewer donor exposures and less additives & anticoagulants. Additionally, cold stored platelets are "primed for coagulation activity"
In 2018, 31rst @AABB Standards indicates that the definition of “low titer” shall be made locally by each transfusion service, and that policy specifies which patients are eligible to receive whole blood, the maximum quantity of how to monitor for adverse events post transfusion.
