2021: That was the year that was.

Reginald Saxton gave many hundreds of transfusions to the shocked casualties and developed and deployed one of the first mobile transfusion units. The REMAP-CAP trial for hospitalised patients will re-open to test the use of convalescent plasma in immunocompromised patients and also to trial different does of monoclonal antibodies in seronegative patients. We bring together many articles from several important themes, including Patient Blood Management and COVID-19, and take the opportunity to look both backwards and forwards at transfusion medicine. [Extracted from the article]