Imagine you are chopping vegetables for stir fry and slice your finger. Normally, it bleeds (and hurts). You apply some pressure and your body gets to work: proteins in your blood come together and begin to clot so that the flow of blood stops. For the 20,000 Americans with hemophilia, their blood is lacking this… Continue reading Everything You Should Know About Hemophilia
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New Guidelines for Managing Blood Transfusions
After analyzing data from clinical trials about approaches to blood transfusions, experts from Johns Hopkins, Cleveland Clinic and NYU Langone Medical Center have come up with recommendations that reduce blood use as well as improve patient safety. The study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, also provides a how-to guide for launching a patient blood management… Continue reading New Guidelines for Managing Blood Transfusions