Elizabeth S. Allen, Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
Claudia S. Cohn, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Sara Bakhtary, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
Nancy M. Dunbar, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
Thomas Gniadek, Department of Pathology, NorthShore University Health System, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Courtney K. Hopkins, Vitalant, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Jessica Jacobson, Department of Pathology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
Parvez M. Lokhandwala, American Red Cross, Biomedical Services, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Ryan A. Metcalf, Clinical Pathology Division, Department of Pathology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Colin Murphy, Department of Pathology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Micah T. Prochaska, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Jay S. Raval, Department of Pathology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Hua Shan, Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
Emily K. Storch, Office of Blood Research and Review, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Monica B. Pagano, Transfusion Medicine Division, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-22-2021

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), which has been made available as a manuscript published in Transfusion since 2018.

METHODS: CTMC committee members reviewed original manuscripts including TM-related topics published electronically (ahead) or in print from December 2019 to December 2020. The selection of topics and manuscripts was discussed at committee meetings and chosen based on relevance and originality. Next, committee members worked in pairs to create a synopsis of each topic, which was then reviewed by two additional committee members. The first and senior authors of this manuscript assembled the final manuscript. Although this synopsis is extensive, it is not exhaustive, and some papers may have been excluded or missed.

RESULTS: The following topics are included: COVID-19 effects on the blood supply and regulatory landscape, COVID convalescent plasma, adult transfusion practices, whole blood, molecular immunohematology, pediatric TM, cellular therapy, and apheresis medicine.

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

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