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Blood product transfusion guidelines
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This month we publish a simple audit of Major Trauma Transfusion Guidelines from the Academic Department of Clinical Traumatology at Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham, UK (see article on page 134).1 In summary, only 16% of 167 emergency departments seeing more than 50 000 patients a year use transfusion guidelines when managing major trauma. Although the audit specifically looks at trauma, the findings no doubt equally apply to non-trauma …