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SHOT Bite No. 27 is now available! This document relating to solid organ transplants signposts current available guidance on blood selection, crossmatching and reasoning behind these recommendations. Do you want to know more? Go to: shotuk.org/resources/curr…

NHSBT are on the look out for Transfusion Medicine Clinical Fellows for August 2024! We're looking for motivated #haemSpRs wanting to do a year OOP to develop subspecialty skills in transfusion medicine. Please get in touch with any questions. jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/joba…

🦠There is a low rate of transfusion transmitted infection in the UK thanks to the many risk reduction measures in place ℹ Take a look at our infographic explaining them here: tinyurl.com/2x83vhty @UKHSA @NHSBT @givebloodscot @GiveBloodNI @WelshBlood @JennyLeonardArt

Register as a trainee! College registration is now open for newly appointed StRs. For more details, please see the link below. If you have any questions, please get in touch with the Training Department at training@rcpath.org rcpath.org/trainees/train…

@SaikatmanMD Yes and no. It’s a short tweet and can’t include everything… UK NICE guidelines say 80 for ACS only (and chronically transfused patients and major haemorrhage managed differently)

@TransfusionWM This is very important regarding the Hb threshold for transfusion. A lot of malpractice is going on related to this. Shouldn't we mention to them to keep the Hb threshold for cardiac function compromised patients to 80 g/L ?

New F1s currently starting their shadowing and induction ahead of changeover next week. What key transfusion messages do we want to share? I’ll go first. #blooducation

The programme for BBTS 2023 is now filled to the brim with insightful and educational talks from some fantastic speakers! Take a look here: bbts.org.uk/bbts2023/progr… OR Register now: bbts.org.uk/bbts2023/regis…

Good luck to all the new doctors! And enjoy!! 🌟🌟🌟

2⃣ Standard hb threshold for transfusion is 70 g/l BUT rapidly falling haemoglobins should be rechecked at an appropriate interval. New ⬇️hb and ⬇️BP is bleeding until proven otherwise even if you can’t see the blood🩸🩸🩸

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Platelet-RBC Overlapping Infographic.

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Announcement 📢 The SHOT webinars on accurate and complete patient identification for safe transfusion are now available! To view them click the link below & don't forget to visit the signposted resources! We've had some fantastic engagement🙏🫂 shotuk.org/resources/curr…

@Advo_D @WilliamAird4 I disagree. “Anaemia of acute disease” is definitely a thing. Most hospital inpatients will drop their hb from baseline by 10g/l (I have seen this referenced but don’t ask me where!)

@WilliamAird4 But this kind of "picture of iron deficiency caused by inflammatory response" is something you only get after inflammation has gone on for quite a while, no? I've never seen someone with that picture due to a random short-term illness.

1/4 SMOKE DETECTOR PRINCIPLE Anemia of inflammation (AI) is believed to represent an evolutionary trade-off whereby the advantages of starving bugs (e.g. siderophilic bacteria) of much needed iron outweigh the disadvantages of collateral iron-deficient erythropoiesis.

@christiplady @WilliamAird4 *too much* of it replaced? 😂

@WilliamAird4 In a hospital far far away, where they put the month before the day and the decimal point in the wrong place, an unwell person lost a lot of blood and had some replaced?

1/12 STORYTELLING WITH THE CBC Check out the CBC time series in the graphic and without fast forwarding in this thread, try to come up with a story!

@NourAlmozain Many unanswered questions and lots to explore.

@TransfusionWM Any potential with bone marrow MUD or Haplo-identical transplant?

I’ve been preparing a teaching session on granulocytes- one of my favourite topics! Here's a thread on some key points and new developments #blooducation

@TeamCaptainJohn @NHSBT Difficult to know. Seems to be an increase since 2020. Either way, despite what a lot of people say, interest and use doesn’t appear to be declining!

@TransfusionWM @NHSBT Proportional to increased BMT, etc?