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Platelet Transfusion - Articles
Platelet Transfusion Video
by
ANNGREGORY74
Posted
Sat 21 Feb 2009 11:37pm
Day 75
We have some good news!
WBRZ (Channel 2) in Baton Rouge has agreed to do a story on Ann. They have already taped some segments, and we are very excited that they will be interviewing us tomorrow!
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What is a Platelet Transfusion?
by
Moshura's Sister
Posted
Mon 28 Dec 2009 12:00am
://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/platelet/test.html
http://www.marrow.org/PATIENT/Undrstnd_Disease_Treat/Undrstnd_Treat_Opt/Lrn_Other_Treatment/Blood_Transfusions/index.html
Why... create a need for red blood cell or platelet transfusions.
Most chemotherapy drugs affect cells in the bone marrow. This commonly leads to low levels of white blood cells
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Dose of platelets in prophylactic transfusions for severe thrombocytopenia
by
Mark Pool, MD
Posted
Tue 09 Mar 2010 8:18pm
the effect of platelet dose on various transfusion and clinical outcomes in patients receiving prophylactic transfusions for severe hypoproliferative thrombocytopenia.
The study... expected to have platelet counts of 10,000/mm3 or less for 5 or more days and received at least 1 plt transfusion--and excluded patients with active bleeding grade 2 or higher
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Blood Counts and Blood Transfusions
by
ffong
Posted
Mon 05 Oct 2009 10:02pm
Last Thursday Jaylon received a blood transfusion to start the weekend. The combination of his chemotherapy drugs have pretty much shocked his bone marrow. Evidence of the effect is in his low blood counts. We were told that this is expected during his current stage. Today Jay received his peg shots, vincristine, and a platelet transfusion. He
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2nd Platelet Cocktail
by
Moshura's Sister
Posted
Tue 29 Dec 2009 12:00am
platelet transfusion this morning ........well not something you want to hear so early in the morning or at any other time but its got to get done.
So here we are at 10:50 in the morning looking at a nurse starting to prep Marco for platelet transfusion so here we go round two of platelets, I told Marco he may have to have a serious talk with his own
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Transfusion Thursday
by
StacieSmith
Posted
Thu 21 May 2009 12:00am
As I had suspected yesterday, Gavin needed both red blood cell and platelet transfusions today in clinic. This meant that we were there from about 9:30 - 4:00. It's a full-time job for this little guy!
His mouth has been hurting today, which means that the dreaded mucositis is flaring up again. His lips look pretty red and irritated
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Blood & Platelet Donations Needed
by
Kelly
Posted
Tue 02 Dec 2008 4:14pm
with age, I never got around to doing something so simple, and so life saving. And now here I am with a specific type of cancer that requires lots of transfusions, platelets and other blood products. So far I've had 4 units of blood, 3 units of platelets and 3 units of other blood products. I haven't even been here a week.
We've gotten a lot
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Relationship between platelet storage and clinical outcomes
by
Mark Pool, MD
Posted
Tue 09 Nov 2010 3:27pm
An article by Welsby and colleagues in the November issue of Transfusion examines the possible possible relationship between platelet storage duration of two to five days... platelet storage age and clinical outcomes in this minimally transfused patient group. In addition to considering the possible clinical effects of platelet storage time
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Blood, Platelets, G Shot and Chemo - Oh My!
by
xoxomarebear
Posted
Sat 20 Dec 2008 7:14pm
Vivienne endured a marathon trip to the medicine room last night. She received:
Chemotherapy - A vincristine push (15 minutes)
G-CSF (30 minutes)
Blood transfusion (more than 2 hours)
Platelet transfusion (one hour and 3o minutes)
The payoff is that all of this will truly help her to feel better. She is currently neutropenic in her
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Transfusion Tuesday
by
StacieSmith
Posted
Tue 30 Jun 2009 12:00am
As predicted in this point of Gavin's chemo cycle, he needed a blood transfusion today. He felt great, but looked a bit on the pale side. Sure enough, his labwork confirmed that he needed more blood. I was happy that his platelets were high enough to not need a transfusion of that as well. I'd love for that to be the last transfusion for him -- EVER! I
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