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Purpose of Review: The aim of the present review was to describe recent changes in blood banking thinking, practice, and products that affect trauma care., Recent Findings: Prompt balanced hemostatic resuscitation of major hemorrhage from trauma improves outcome and reduces blood use. New blood processes and products can help deliver appropriate doses of procoagulant plasma and platelets quicker and more safely. New processes include holding larger inventories of thawed plasma with risk of wastage and rapid plasma thawers. New products in the blood bank include group A or group A low-titer B thawed plasma and AB or A liquid (never-frozen) plasma for resuscitation, prepooled cultured whole blood-derived platelets in plasma, and prepooled cryoprecipitate in varying pool sizes. Single-donor apheresis or pooled whole blood-derived platelets in additive solution, designed to reduce plasma-related transfusion reactions, are also increasingly available but are not an appropriate blood component for hemorrhage control resuscitation because they reduce the total amount of administered plasma coagulation factors by 10%., Summary: Early initiation of balanced massive transfusion protocols leading to hemostatic resuscitation is lifesaving. Changing blood product availability and composition will lead to higher complexity of massive transfusion. It is critical that anesthesiologists understand the composition of the available new blood products to use them correctly.

Purpose of Review: To provide a review of the current literature on the management of obstetric hemorrhage., Recent Findings: Obstetric hemorrhage remains a prominent cause of maternal morbidity and mortality. When postpartum hemorrhage is refractory to manual and pharmacologic treatments, escalating interventions may be needed. Second-line interventions include the use of intrauterine balloon (or gauze) tamponade and uterine compression sutures. If these therapies fail to stop the bleeding, patients may need to undergo radiological embolization, pelvic devascularization, or hysterectomy. In recent years, pelvic arterial embolization has become a common treatment for intractable postpartum hemorrhage in an effort to avoid hysterectomy. The use of prophylactic arterial catheterization in the management of cases with expected major postpartum hemorrhage (e.g., placenta increta or percreta) has also been reported. However, the efficacy and safety of this technique requires further study., Summary: Postpartum hemorrhage is best managed by using a stepwise progressive approach. Manual and pharmacologic interventions are first-line treatments. Second-line treatments are used when bleeding continues; and hysterectomy is reserved for only the most extreme cases. Outcomes may be improved by thorough preparation, anticipating the risk of obstetric hemorrhage, and coordinating consultants for interventional procedures.