2016 AABB Annual Meeting p 3 Introduction This packet of information will guide you through the process of participating in an educational event at the AABB Annual Meeting. This meeting attracts approximately 6,000 attendees and represents all aspects of blood banking, transfusion medicine and cellular therapies.

Expert panel issues updated guidelines for red blood cell storage time and transfusion use for red blood cell storage time and transfusion use (2016, com/news/2016-10-aabb-guidelines-red Transfusion Guidelines serve as a mechanism to encourage the use of evidence-based transfusion A Clinical Practice Guideline from the AABB 2012 4. Society of Thoracic Surgeons and Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists 2007, 2011 American Society of Anesthesiologists 1996, 2006 7. A • The guidelines were developed based on separately published up - dated systematic reviews of the literature on transfusion thresholds • Literature searches of RCTs evaluating transfusion thresholds from 1950 through May 2016 • The systematic review included RCTs in which the transfusion and respiratory rate, as per local guidelines (National guidelines define a minimum of pre-transfusion, 15 minutes after and end of transfusion) If there are any signs of a transfusion reaction, such as tachycardia, rash, breathlessness, hypotension or fever, stop the transfusion and contact the laboratory immediately [10]. AABB Releases Clinical Practice Guidelines on Red Blood Cell Transfusion and Storage Thursday, December 1, 2016 The American Association of Blood Banks published in the Journal of the American Medical Association new clinical practice guidelines for red blood cell (RBC) transfusion thresholds and storage. A Compilation from Recent Peer-Reviewed Literature Second Edition Practice Guidelines for Blood Transfusion Request PDF | On Oct 1, 2016, Aaron A.R. Tobian and others published Red blood cell transfusion: 2016 clinical practice guidelines from AABB: TRANSFUSION GUIDEL