Transfusasaurus (That's You!)
The Callum Critique will be held about 3 times per year.
Featuring Dr Jeannie Callum and her article reviews as found in Transfusion Medicine Reviews
REFERENCE ARTICLES:
Age of transfused blood: an independent predictor of mortality despite universal leukoreduction. Weinberg JA, McGwin G Jr, Griffin RL, Huynh VQ, Cherry SA 3rd, Marques MB, Reiff DA, Kerby JD, Rue LW 3rd. J Trauma. 2008 Aug;65(2):279-82; discussion 282-4.
Blood transfusion, anesthesia, surgery and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in a population-based case-control study. Cerhan JR, Engels EA, Cozen W, Davis S, Severson RK, Morton LM, Gridley G, Hartge P, Linet M. Int J Cancer. 2008 Aug 15;123(4):888-94.
Blood transfusions in trauma: six-year analysis of the transfusion practices at a Level I trauma center. Teixeira PG, Oncel D, Demetriades D, Inaba K, Shulman I, Green D, Plurad D, Rhee P. Am Surg. 2008 Oct;74(10):953-7.
Call subject patterns among on-call clinical pathology residents in an academic institution: how can tracking changes in patterns over time benefit resident education? Do MC, Ben-Ezra J, McPherson RA. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2008 Aug;132(8):1317-20.
Age of transfused red cells and early outcomes after cardiac surgery. Yap CH, Lau L, Krishnaswamy M, Gaskell M, Yii M. Ann Thorac Surg. 2008 Aug;86(2):554-9.
Change in use of allogeneic red blood cell transfusions among surgical patients. Pham JC, Catlett CL, Berenholtz SM, Haut ER. J Am Coll Surg. 2008 Sep;207(3):352-9. Epub 2008 Jun 2.
Early aggressive use of fresh frozen plasma does not improve outcome in critically injured trauma patients. Scalea TM, Bochicchio KM, Lumpkins K, Hess JR, Dutton R, Pyle A, Bochicchio GV. Ann Surg. 2008 Oct;248(4):578-84.
Maternal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: the contribution of ineffective blood transfusion services. Bates I, Chapotera GK, McKew S, van den Broek N. BJOG. 2008 Oct;115(11):1331-9. Review.
The promise of human induced pluripotent stem cells for research and therapy. Nishikawa S, Goldstein RA, Nierras CR. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2008 Sep;9(9):725-9. Review.
Temporal trends in red blood transfusion among US dialysis patients, 1992-2005. Ibrahim HN, Ishani A, Foley RN, Guo H, Liu J, Collins AJ. Am J Kidney Dis. 2008 Dec;52(6):1115-21. Epub 2008 Sep 27.
Transfusions in the less severely injured: does age of transfused blood affect outcomes? Weinberg JA, McGwin G Jr, Marques MB, Cherry SA 3rd, Reiff DA, Kerby JD, Rue LW 3rd. J Trauma. 2008 Oct;65(4):794-8.
