Is it safe to use lower blood counts as a trigger for blood transfusion in order to give fewer blood transfusions?

Blood transfusions are a very common medical procedure, and it ’s important to balance the potential benefits and harms. In October 2016, Jeffery Carson from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, in New Brunswick in the USA, and colleagues updated the Cochrane Review of research comparing different triggers for transfusing red blood cells and we asked h im to tell us more about the importance of the review and its findings.
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - Category: Journals (General) Authors: Source Type: podcasts