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Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine Challenges During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Source :
- Clinics in Laboratory Medicine
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- SARS-CoV-2 (also known as COVID-19) has been an unprecedented challenge in many parts of the medical field with blood banking being no exception. COVID-19 has had a distinctly negative effect on our blood collection nationwide forcing blood banks, blood centers, and the US government to adopt new policies to adapt to a decreased blood supply as well as to protect our donors from COVID-19. These policies can be seen distinctly in patient blood management and blood bank operations. We are also faced with developing policies and procedures for a nontraditional therapy, convalescent plasma; its efficacy and safety is still not completely elucidated as of yet.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Convalescent plasma
Blood management
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
Blood Safety
Clinical Biochemistry
Pneumonia, Viral
Blood Donors
Article
Betacoronavirus
Pandemic
medicine
Blood shortage
Humans
In patient
Blood Transfusion
Intensive care medicine
Policy Making
Pandemics
Biochemistry, medical
Government
Infection Control
FDA donation policies
SARS-CoV-2
Transfusion Medicine
Biochemistry (medical)
COVID-19
Transfusion medicine
Blood banking
Blood wastage
Blood Banks
Business
Coronavirus Infections
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15579832
- Volume :
- 40
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinics in laboratory medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3102a3176d182f0db13f6d4b1fb85ce4