New guideline's published in Annals of Internal Medicine by the AABB (formerly known as the American Association of Blood Banks), recommends a restrictive red blood cell transfusion strategy for stable adults and children. Between patients on a restrictive strategy or a liberal transfusion strategy, evidence shows no difference in the length of hospitalization, ability to walk unaided, or in mortality, and therefore physicians should consider transfusing at a hemoglobin threshold of 7 to 8g/dL...
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