Use of half red blood cell units in oncology patients during severe shortages to extend hospital supply
Transfusion of half RBC units during a severe RBC blood shortage can temporarily decrease RBC usage but will result in a shorter interval to the next transfusion and greater total number of RBC units transfused in subsequent days.
Authors
- Jennifer S. Woo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9189-7885)
- Haoyue Shan
- Lefan Zhuang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2158-5904)
- Dongyun Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0736-4977)
- Shan Yuan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9424-1790)
- Shirong Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6396-8292)
- Alexander Garcia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7634-3454)
- Ryan Jackson
Institutions
- City Of Hope National Medical Center (US)
- City of Hope (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Transfusion
- Published
- 2024-08-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/trf.17972
- Primary Topic
- Blood transfusion and management
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00