A blood transfusion provides healthy blood when a person’s body has difficulty producing it. The amount of time it takes for a blood transfusion varies, but it may take up to 4 hours. Blood is ...

Plasma is the liquid component of your blood. Also known as blood plasma, it makes up about 55% of your blood and has a light yellow color. When you donate blood, the plasma can be separated out and ...

Blood transfusions can take 1 to 4 hours. A blood transfusion involves giving you blood from a donor via an intravenous (IV) line. Sometimes, you may receive your own blood if it was collected ...

Blood transfusions could be a regular thing if you or your child has a blood disorder called beta thalassemia. The disease causes a drop in the amount of red blood cells you have. A transfusion gives ...

Background Up to half of patients with infective endocarditis (IE) require cardiac surgery. Although anaemia is common, its precise prevalence, transfusion practices and impact on outcomes in ...

British Army Maj. Cat Kemeny, center, a medical officer with the 4th Regiment, Army Air Corps, instructs Sgt. Jacob Montgomery, left, a combat medic with the 1st Armored Division Combat Aviation ...

HOUSTON — In early December, a nurse at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center gave a 23-year-old leukemia patient a blood transfusion that, unbeknownst to the medical staff, had become ...

Transfusion reactions are medical complications that arise after a blood transfusion. They may occur during the transfusion (known as acute) or weeks after it (delayed). They're further classified ...