Blood Transfusion in 2014

I had several discussions in ED regarding blood transfusion in anemic patients. My argument is that if patient does not have any acute symptoms (SOB, feeling faint, tachycardia, Cardiac ischemia, …), there is no need to emergently transfuse patients in ED. Our threshold to transfuse was 10/30 vs 9/28/ vs 8/26 long time ago and … Continue reading Blood Transfusion in 2014