COVID-19 pandemic and transfusion medicine : the worldwide challenge and its implications

COVID-19 pandemic has imposed worldwide challenge and has significantly affected transfusion medicine. Shortage in blood products along with concerns regarding the safety of blood products have emerged. Measures to overcome these challenges have been implemented in order to decrease the demand on blood products and to encourage blood donations while taking full precautions to minimize risk of COVID-19 transmission mainly at blood banks and medical centers. Several countries have been successful in facing these new challenges. In addition, the role of plasma therapy in the treatment of COVID-19 patients, especially in severe cases, has been proposed and current studies are being conducted to determine its efficacy. Other therapeutic options are currently being explored. So far, the use of convalescent plasma is considered a promising rescue treatment to be looked at.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:100

Enthalten in:

Annals of hematology - 100(2021), 5 vom: 02. Mai, Seite 1115-1122

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Al Mahmasani, Layal [VerfasserIn]
Hodroj, Mohammad Hassan [VerfasserIn]
Finianos, Antoine [VerfasserIn]
Taher, Ali [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Blood safety
COVID-19
Journal Article
Plasma therapy
Review
Shortage
Transfusion

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Date Completed 19.04.2021

Date Revised 30.01.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s00277-021-04441-y

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM320881571