Tag: Blood Disorders

All families should receive written and verbal education about neonatal jaundice before discharge

Among nonresponders to initial COVID-19 vaccination, seroconversion occurred in 56 percent following booster dose

Hospitalized COVID-19 patients with increased estimated blood viscosity may have greater risk for in-hospital mortality

After adjustment for donor hemoglobin levels, no increased risk seen for requiring additional transfusion after transfusion from female donor

Assessment of leukocytes adherent to and rolling along vessel wall may help predict outcomes after HCT for hematologic cancer

Future 1- or 2-degree Celsius increase in mean temperature expected to increase incidence of hyponatremia by 6.3 and 13.9 percent, respectively

Transfusion independence, near-normal Hb levels seen for most children and adults receiving beti-cel for non-β⁰/β⁰ genotype β-thalassemia

Organization has had to limit blood product distributions to hospitals

Mortality rate increases with increasing sequential organ failure assessment score on admission, respiratory failure, maximum lactate level

Easing the rules would result in a 2 to 4 percent increase -- 345,400 to 615,300 more pints of blood -- in the nation's annual blood supply