As nursing practices and policies have evolved, including recent advances such as non-medical authorisation of blood components, this article discusses how the nurse’s role in transfusion practices ...

For the first time in its 66 year history, a high profile award for transfusion medicine has been awarded to two nurses. Catherine Howell and Shirley Murray were presented with Oliver Memorial Award ...

The optimal hemoglobin threshold for erythrocyte transfusions in critically ill children is unknown. We hypothesized that a restrictive transfusion strategy of using packed red cells that were ...

A blood transfusion is a way of adding blood to your body after an illness or injury. If your body is missing one or more of the components that make up healthy blood, a transfusion can help supply ...