NHS Blood and Transplant, Queen Mary University London, and Barts Health NHS Trust have collaborated on a new study published in the journal Critical Care. The study recruited 909 major traumatic ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers reviewed various randomized clinical trials and cohort studies to evaluate the decrease in mortality rates among coronavirus ...

Findings from a nationwide, multicenter study led by Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggest that patients with COVID-19 have less chance of developing ...

A new blood product developed by NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) that combines red blood cells (RBC) and plasma in the same bag boosts survival from penetrating major trauma injury after pre-hospital ...

Platelet transfusion thresholds in according bleeding risk and the presence of bleeding. WHO = World Health Organization. “In practice, we see all too often [that] prophylactic transfusion of ...

Dried plasma was used during WW II and the Korean War, saving thousands of lives. It was banned due to the lack of screening technology for hepatitis contaminated blood. Now, military and veteran ...

For patients who experience excessive bleeding during cardiac surgery, four-factor prothrombin complex concentrate (4F-PCC), a blood product that contains clotting factors, is significantly more ...

Every day, thousands of Indonesians donate blood and plasma, often unaware of the complex scientific and safety-driven processes that transform a single donation into life-saving therapies. As ...

Only about five percent of the blood plasma collected in Rwanda is used locally, with the rest discarded after reaching its ...