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Use of blood components
Blood components are products containing cells or plasma derived from living human blood. Each blood component has specific clinical indications, benefits and potential risks.
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Clinical indications
Some types of anaemia, thrombocytopenia and platelet function disorders, bleeding disorders and massive transfusion are common clinical indications for blood components.
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Patient blood management (PBM)
PBM uses a multidisciplinary team approach incorporating individually tailored proactive treatment to conserve a patient’s own blood.
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Transfusion process
The transfusion process for the safe administration of blood products has a number of important steps that need to be followed from the decision to transfuse and informed consent right through to documentation and traceability.
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Adverse events
Adverse transfusion reactions are when patients experience an undesirable response associated with transfusion of blood or blood products.
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