Giving blood or a part of it to a patient, including whole blood, packed and washed red cells, platelets, plasma products, exchange, neonatal and intrauterine transfusion, autologous transfusion, cell salvage and blood substitutes. An entry belongs here when its own source describes a transfusion method or a blood product used in transfusion. It excludes donation and banking. Each member is a renal and transfusion therapy entry that the atlas covers as a subject in its own right, placed here on what its cited article says it is and how it is used, never on its name alone.
Browse By
Blood Transfusion and Blood Components
Filter Results22 entries
Sources
Donor lymphocyte infusion (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Donor lymphocyte infusion, Lead sectionQuote, Has Member: Donor lymphocyte infusion, Lead section
Donor lymphocyte (or leukocyte) infusion (DLI) or buffy coat infusion is a form of adoptive immunotherapy used to treat relapses after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Wikipedia: Blood Transfusion
WikipediaHas Member: Blood Transfusion, IntroductionQuote, Has Member: Blood Transfusion, Introduction
Blood transfusion is the process of transferring blood products into a person's circulation intravenously.
Platelet Transfusion (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationHas Member: Platelet Transfusion, IntroductionQuote, Has Member: Platelet Transfusion, Introduction
Platelet transfusion, is the process of infusing platelet concentrate into the body via vein, to prevent or treat the bleeding in people with either a low platelet count or poor platelet function.
Exchange transfusion (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Exchange Transfusion, IntroductionQuote, Has Member: Exchange Transfusion, Introduction
An exchange transfusion (ET) is a blood transfusion in which the patient's blood or components of it are exchanged with (replaced by) other blood or blood products.
Autotransfusion - Wikipedia
Has Member: Autologous Blood Transfusion, Introduction
Autotransfusion is a process wherein a person receives their own blood for a transfusion, instead of banked allogeneic (separate-donor) blood.
Has Member: Autotransfusion, Introduction
Autotransfusion is a process wherein a person receives their own blood for a transfusion, instead of banked allogeneic (separate-donor) blood.
View the SourceIntraoperative blood salvage (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Intraoperative Blood Salvage, IntroductionQuote, Has Member: Intraoperative Blood Salvage, Introduction
Intraoperative blood salvage (IOS), also known as cell salvage, is a specific type of autologous blood transfusion.
Whole blood (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Whole Blood Transfusion, IntroductionQuote, Has Member: Whole Blood Transfusion, Introduction
Whole blood (WB) is human blood from a standard blood donation.
Packed red blood cells (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Packed Red Blood Cells, IntroductionQuote, Has Member: Packed Red Blood Cells, Introduction
Red blood cell concentrates, also known as red cell concentrates or packed red blood cells, are red blood cells that have been separated for blood transfusion.
Prothrombin complex concentrate (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Prothrombin Complex Concentrate, IntroductionQuote, Has Member: Prothrombin Complex Concentrate, Introduction
Prothrombin complex concentrate (PCC), also known as factor IX complex, sold under the brand name Kcentra among others, is a combination medication made up of blood clotting factors II, IX, and X(3-factor PCC) or, when also containing factor VII as does Kcentra, 4-factor PCC.
Convalescent plasma (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Convalescent Plasma, IntroductionQuote, Has Member: Convalescent Plasma, Introduction
Convalescent plasma is the blood plasma collected from a survivor of an infectious disease.
Washed red blood cells (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Washed Red Blood Cells, IntroductionQuote, Has Member: Washed Red Blood Cells, Introduction
Washed red blood cells are red blood cells that have had most of the plasma, platelets and white blood cells removed and replaced with saline or another type of preservation solution.
Neonatal red cell transfusion (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Neonatal Red Cell Transfusion, IntroductionQuote, Has Member: Neonatal Red Cell Transfusion, Introduction
Neonates are defined as babies up to 28 days after birth.
Intrauterine transfusion - Wikipedia
Has Member: Intrauterine Transfusion, IntroductionQuote, Has Member: Intrauterine Transfusion, Introduction
An Intrauterine transfusion (IUT) is a procedure that provides blood to a fetus, most commonly through the umbilical cord.
Cadaveric blood transfusion (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Cadaveric Blood Transfusion, IntroductionQuote, Has Member: Cadaveric Blood Transfusion, Introduction
Cadaveric blood transfusion is the transfusion of blood from a dead body to a living person.
Young blood transfusion (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Young Blood Transfusion, IntroductionQuote, Has Member: Young Blood Transfusion, Introduction
Young blood transfusion refers to transfusing blood specifically from a young person into an older one with the intention of creating a health benefit.
Blood substitute (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Blood Substitute, IntroductionQuote, Has Member: Blood Substitute, Introduction
A blood substitute (also called artificial blood or blood surrogate) is a substance used to mimic and fulfill some functions of biological blood.
Pentastarch (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHas Member: Pentastarch, IntroductionQuote, Has Member: Pentastarch, Introduction
Pentastarch is a subgroup of hydroxyethyl starch, with five hydroxyethyl groups out of each 11 hydroxyls, giving it approximately 50% hydroxyethylation.
Bloodless surgery (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Bloodless Surgery, IntroductionQuote, Has Member: Bloodless Surgery, Introduction
Bloodless surgery is a non-invasive surgical method developed by orthopedic surgeon Adolf Lorenz, who was known as "the bloodless surgeon of Vienna".
Wikipedia: Cryoprecipitate
WikipediaHas Member: Cryoprecipitate Transfusion, Introduction, sentence 1Quote, Has Member: Cryoprecipitate Transfusion, Introduction, sentence 1
Cryoprecipitate, also called cryo for short, or Cryoprecipitate Antihemophilic factor (AHF), is a frozen blood product prepared from blood plasma.
Wikipedia: Fresh Frozen Plasma
WikipediaHas Member: Fresh Frozen Plasma Transfusion, Introduction, sentence 1Quote, Has Member: Fresh Frozen Plasma Transfusion, Introduction, sentence 1
Fresh frozen plasma (FFP) is a blood product made from the liquid portion of whole blood.
Wikipedia: Granulocyte Transfusion
WikipediaHas Member: Granulocyte Transfusion, Introduction, sentence 1Quote, Has Member: Granulocyte Transfusion, Introduction, sentence 1
A granulocyte transfusion is a medical procedure in which granulocytes are infused into a person's blood.
Reader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.
Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.