Rapid Admixture Blood Warming: Fast, Safe & Inexpensive
Journal Title: BMH Medical Journal - Year 2014, Vol 1, Issue 3
Abstract
The international standard for banked blood, including packed red blood cells (PRBCs), requires keeping it at 4ºC. Patients who need rapid PRBC unit transfusions benefit tremendously from blood being warmed to body temperature (37ºC), since hypothermia resulting from rapid infusion of cold blood is a major risk factor in exanguinating patients. It increases morbidity and mortality as well as often producing other adverse reactions, including those simulating transfusion reactions. Ideally, methods to warm blood for rapid transfusion should bring the unit to body temperature (37ºC), and be rapid, safe and inexpensive.
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Kenneth V Iserson
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