July 06, 2022
AABB’s Transfusion Safety and Patient Blood Management (TS/PBM) Subsection recently released the latest article in its “PBM Column” series, “How Do I Select Evidence-Based Transfusion Thresholds for Platelets, Plasma and Cryoprecipitate?”
In this complimentary resource, Shaughn Nalezinski, MS, MLS(ASCP)cmSBBcm, lead blood bank technologist, Department of Laboratory Medicine Transfusion Services, at Concord Hospital in Concord, N.H., discusses the data that inform the most common indications for platelet, plasma and cryoprecipitate transfusions. Nalezinski also shares considerations for the use of each through the lens of patient blood management.
Additional PBM resources are available in AABB’s PBM Toolkit.