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Neonatal Red Blood Cell Transfusion by Andréanne Villeneuve; Valérie Arsenault; Jacques Lacroix; Marisa Tucci is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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Transfusions are more common in premature infants with approximately 40% of low birth weight infants and up to 90% of extremely low birth weight infants requiring red blood cell transfusion. Although red blood cell transfusion can be life-saving in these preterm infants, it has been associated with higher rates of complications including necrotizing enterocolitis, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, retinopathy of prematurity and possibly abnormal neurodevelopment. The main objective of this review is to assess current red blood cell transfusion practices in the neonatal intensive care unit, to summarize available neonatal transfusion guidelines published in different countries and to emphasize the wide variation in transfusion thresholds that exists for red blood cell transfusion. This review also addresses certain issues specific to red blood cell processing for the neonatal population including storage time, irradiation, cytomegalovirus (CMV) prevention strategies and patient blood management. Future research avenues are proposed to better define optimal transfusion practice in neonatal intensive care units.

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Author

Andréanne Villeneuve; Valérie Arsenault; Jacques Lacroix; Marisa Tucci

Publisher

Wiley

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)