Monica B. Pagano, Transfusion Medicine Division, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Elizabeth S. Allen, Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California
Stella T. Chou, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nancy M. Dunbar, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire
Thomas Gniadek, NorthShore University Health System, Chicago, Illinois
Ruchika Goel, Transfusion Medicine Division, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MarylandDivision of Hematology/Oncology, Simmons Cancer Institute at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine and Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center, Springfield, Illinois, USA
Sarah K. Harm, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, Vermon
Courtney K. Hopkins, Vitalant, Scottsdale, Arizona
Jessica Jacobson, Department of Pathology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York
Parvez M. Lokhandwala, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
Ryan A. Metcalf, Clinical Pathology Division, Department of Pathology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Jay S. Raval, Transfusion Medicine Service, Department of Pathology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Joseph Schwartz, Transfusion Medicine & Cellular Therapy, Department of Pathology & Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York
Hua Shan, Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
Philip C. Spinella, Division of Pediatric Critical Care, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri, USA
Emily Storch, Office of Blood Research and Review, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland
Claudia S. Cohn, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-1-2020

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The AABB Clinical Transfusion Medicine Committee (CTMC) compiles an annual synopsis of the published literature covering important developments in the field of transfusion medicine (TM) for the board of director's review. This synopsis is now made available as a manuscript published in TRANSFUSION.

STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: CTMC committee members review original manuscripts including TM-related topics published in different journals between late 2018 and 2019. The selection of topics and manuscripts are discussed at committee meetings and are chosen based on relevance and originality. After the topics and manuscripts are selected, committee members work in pairs to create a synopsis of the topics, which is then reviewed by two committee members. The first and senior authors of this manuscript assembled the final manuscript. Although this synopsis is comprehensive, it is not exhaustive, and some papers may have been excluded or missed.

RESULTS: The following topics are included: infectious risks to the blood supply, iron donor studies, pre-transfusion testing interference and genotyping, cold agglutinin disease (CAD), HLA alloimmunization in platelet transfusions, patient blood management, updates to TACO and TRALI definitions, pediatric TM, and advances in apheresis medicine.

CONCLUSION: This synopsis provides easy access to relevant topics and may be useful as an educational tool.

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