Safety and feasibility of cold‐stored uncrossmatched whole blood transfusion in civilian non‐trauma patients

This study demonstrates that the use of WB in non-trauma patients is associated with a decreased 24 h in-hospital mortality with either operative or GI bleed when compared to nonoperative WB transfusion. Emergent severely hemorrhaging non-trauma patients can receive WB transfusions safely without any increased transfusion related adverse effects.