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Characteristics, Regional Evaluation, and D-Antigen in Transfusions by Emergency Medical Services Open

Carlo L. Rosen, Sarah A. Thomas, Michael McCartin, Kerry L. O’Brien, Ira J. Blumen , et al. · 2025

Medicine

Importance Prehospital transfusion (PHT) of blood products by emergency medical services (EMS) has become common in civilian settings. However, variability exists in practices across the US. There are few large-scale data describing US civ…

Current advances in 2024: A critical review of selected topics by the Association for the Advancement of Blood and Biotherapies (<span>AABB</span>) Clinical Transfusion Medicine Committee Open

Jacqueline N. Poston, Jennifer Andrews, Sumedha Arya, Stella T. Chou, Claudia S. Cohn , et al. · 2024

Medicine Psychology Political science

The Association for the Advancement of Blood and Biotherapies (AABB) Clinical Transfusion Medicine Committee (CTMC) is a multidisciplinary committee with broad expertise in transfusion medicine (TM) that provides evidence-based guidance on…

Considering equity in transfusion medicine practice Open

Richard L. Haspel, Sara Bakhtary, Yvette Marie Miller, Kerry L. O’Brien, Monica B. Pagano , et al. · 2023

Medicine Psychology Political science

Regarding the commentary “Wider perspectives: It's a changing world—The use of ABO-incompatible plasma for resuscitating massively bleeding patients”, we are concerned that use of incompatible plasma and whole blood products may raise issu…

Utilization and outcomes of massive transfusion protocols in women with and without invasive placentation Open

Scott A. Shainker, Alireza A. Shamshirsaz, Miriam J. Haviland, Kerry L. O’Brien, Allyson M. Redhunt , et al. · 2019

Medicine Biology

Objective: Our objective was to compare women with and without invasive placentation for whom the massive transfusion protocol (MTP) was activated. In addition, we evaluated the differences in clinical management and blood product utilizat…

Management of a Hospital Transfusion Service During a Nationwide Blood Product Shortage Open

Kerry L. O’Brien, Monique Mohammed, Lynne Uhl · 2018

Medicine Business Philosophy

To the Editor.—On June 21, 2016, our blood supplier informed the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston, Massachusetts) blood bank (and all customers) about a blood product shortage affecting blood centers nationwide. This notificati…

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia in a young man with acute hepatitis E infection Open

Rebecca Karp Leaf, Kerry L. O’Brien, David E. Leaf, Reed E. Drews · 2017

Medicine

Hemolytic anemia is characterized by reticulocytosis, macrocytic anemia, indirect hyperbilirubinemia, elevated lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), and low haptoglobin. Critical to the evaluation of any hemolytic anemia is the determination of whe…

Continuing Medical Education Program in <i>Transfusion</i> Open

Anne F. Eder, Kerry L. O’Brien, Yeowon A. Kim, Richard L. Haspel, Lynne Uhl · 2015

Medicine Business

Article Title: Provision of KEL1-negative blood to obstetric patients: a 3-year single institution retrospective study If you wish to receive credit for this activity, please refer to the website: https://www.wileyhealthlearning.com/trf Bl…

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