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Article: Transfusion Reactions "Comparison of Effect of Blood Bank Versus Bedside Filtration on Platelet Transfusion Reactions."
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- Blood Weekly
- Article date:
- June 8, 1998
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K.G. Morris and C. Bharucha. Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Consensus Conference on Platelet Transfusion, held November 27-28, 1997, in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, "In a retrospective analysis two methods for preventing platelet transfusion reactions are compared. The first group of patients received platelets filtered in the hospital blood bank and were subsequently given filtered and washed platelets if they developed reactions. The second group received ...