Maintaining adequate donations and a sustainable blood supply: Lessons learned.

CONCLUSIONS: Collecting and maintaining a blood supply robust enough to handle disasters and transfusion-dependent patients in need of specialty products is challenging. Collaboration of all parties should help to optimize resources, ensure appropriate collections, improve patient care, and ultimately result in a robust, sustainable blood supply.
PMID: 33206404 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Transfusion - November 18, 2020 Category: Hematology Authors: Gammon RR, Rosenbaum L, Cooke R, Friedman M, Rockwood L, Nichols T, Vossoughi S Tags: Transfusion Source Type: research