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Blood transfusion
Blood transfusion
1 Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK
2 National Blood Service and Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals, and Senior Clinical Lecturer in Blood Transfusion, University of Oxford, UK
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Dr P Bolton-Maggs
Department of Clinical Haematology, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9WL, UK; paula.bolton-maggs@cmmc.nhs.uk
Risks and benefits
Keywords: SHOT; blood transfusion; guidelines; transfusion transmitted infections
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Transfusion of blood and blood products to infants and children is not without risk. In recent years, the risks of blood transfusion have been highlighted by the reports of the Serious Hazards of Transfusion scheme (SHOT), which collects data on adverse events related to transfusion. There continues to be concerns about transfusion transmitted infection, most recently in relation to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). At the same time, new guidelines have recently been published to optimise transfusion practice for children.1,2 This editorial addresses some of the risks and benefits of transfusion therapy in children, concentrating on aspects that may be less familiar to paediatricians.
Since the development of the blood transfusion services during and after the Second World War, we have perhaps come to take the provision of this valuable resource for granted. The advent of plastic bags enabled separation of a unit of blood into component parts—the ready
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