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Blood Products
Blood Products
Blood Products
Shamiel Salie
Paediatric Intensive Care Unit
Red Cross Children’s Hospital,
University of Cape Town
1818 - Extracted 4 ounces of blood from the arm of
the patient’s husband with a syringe and
successfully transfused it
Anaemia in critically ill children
• Causes
– Chronic anaemia
– Overt and occult blood
loss
– Bone marrow
suppression from
diseases/treatment
– Inadequate erythropoietin
response to anaemia
Red Blood Cell Transfusions
• 10/30 rule
• 6% increase in mortality or
• No difference in mortality
• Nearly 7000 patients