About the blood transfusion

Blood transfusion is a common medical method. Simply put, blood transfusion is needed when the blood volume of the human body is insufficient, which may cause damage to important organs and even endanger life. It is common in the following situations: Massive hemorrhage after trauma; Major surgery; Hemorrhagic diseases, such as massive hemorrhage of the upper digestive tract, hemophilia, etc.; Some diseases that destroy blood cells, such as hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, etc.; Bone marrow dysfunction, especially when bone marrow cannot produce blood normally, such as aplastic anemia, etc. Classification by blood source Blood transfusion is divided into autologous blood transfusion and allogeneic blood transfusion. For people with Rh negative blood type, it is safer to use self-blood transfusion. Autologous blood Read More …

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Is there any risk in blood transfusion?

After years of hard work, At present, the safety of blood transfusion in our country has achieved remarkable improvement, and it is extremely rare to be infected with diseases through blood transfusion. Donated blood must go through strict screening and tracking, so regular blood transfusion is relatively safe. However, informal blood transfusion is likely to have serious consequences. After blood transfusion, a certain proportion of recipients had adverse reactions to blood transfusion. These adverse reactions include immune-related blood transfusion reactions, non-immune-related blood transfusion reactions and infection. 1. Immune-related transfusion reactions The vast majority of blood transfusion reactions are caused by blood type mismatch. However, this kind of situation is rare, and at present many effective measures can prevent the occurrence Read More …