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Preparation and Pathogen Inactivation of Double Dose Buffy Coat Platelet Products using the INTERCEPT Blood System
Published on: December 7, 2012
Impact of innovations on transfusion medicine
1Department of Laboratory Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20007, USA.
Abstract:
The final decade of the last century of the second millennium ad has seen dramatic changes in all aspects of science and health care. In transfusion medicine, the blood supply is the safest it has ever been. Newer refinements and innovations are continuously being researched and implemented to achieve and further enhance safety. Advances in blood conservation, pharmacologic manipulation, engineered blood derivatives, and recombinant growth factors can now provide safer and more effective alternatives to blood transfusions for many patients. This overview highlights selective innovations in transfusion medicine and emphasizes some significant advances that have occurred in blood donor screening, blood component collections and therapy, and laboratory testing. Newer technologies are anticipated that will further enhance the safety of blood and transfusions and potentially augment annually the blood supply on a worldwide basis.
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