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Haematological Guidelines

Sections

Transfusion | Perioperative | Miscellaneous

Transfusion

Blood Product

Red Cells

Red Blood Cell Transfusion in Critically Ill Adults. An American College of Chest Physicians Clinical Practice Guideline. Chest 2025;167(2):477-489
Transfusion strategies in non-bleeding critically ill adults: a clinical practice guideline from the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine. Intensive Care Med 2020;46:673–696
Lasocki. Management and prevention of anemia (acute bleeding excluded) in adult critical care patients. Annals Intensive Care 2020;10:97
Carson. Clinical Practice Guidelines From the AABBRed Blood Cell Transfusion Thresholds and Storage. JAMA 2016;epublished October 12th

Fresh Frozen Plasma & Platelets

Transfusion of Fresh Frozen Plasma and Platelets in Critically Ill Adults An American College of Chest Physicians Clinical Practice Guideline. Chest 2025;epublished March 10th

Condition

Blood Management

National Blood Authority Australia. Patient blood management guideline for adults with critical bleeding. Epublished August 10th, 2023

Obstetrics

Patient blood management in obstetrics: prevention and treatment of postpartum haemorrhage. A NATA consensus statement. Blood Transfus 2019;17(2):112-136

Paediatrics

Recommendations on RBC Transfusion in Critically Ill Children With Nonlife-Threatening Bleeding or Hemorrhagic Shock From the Pediatric Critical Care Transfusion and Anemia Expertise Initiative. Pediatr Crit Care Med 2018;19(9S Suppl 1):S127-S132

ECMO

Transfusion Thresholds for Adult Respiratory Extracorporeal Life Support: An Expert Consensus Document. Can J Cardiol 2020;36(9):1550-1553

Trauma

Red Cell Transfusion

The European guideline on management of major bleeding and coagulopathy following trauma: sixth edition. Crit Care 2023;27(1):80

Perioperative

General

Perioperative Bleeding

Management of severe peri-operative bleeding: Guidelines from the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care: Second update 2022. Eur J Anaesthesiol 2023;40(4):226-304

Antiplatelet Agents

Keeling. Peri-operative management of anticoagulation and antiplatelet therapy. Br J Haematol 2016;epublished October 7th

Anaemia

Munoz. International consensus statement on the peri-operative management of anaemia and iron deficiency. Anaesthesia 2017;72:233–247

Coagulopathy

Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation

Ushio. Sepsis‐induced disseminated intravascular coagulation: an international estrangement of disease concept. Acute Med Surg 2023;10(1):e00843

Thrombosis

General

Akbulut. Blood Coagulation and Beyond: Position Paper from the Fourth Maastricht Consensus Conference on Thrombosis. Thromb Haemost 2023;123(8):808–839

Thrombotic Thrombocytopaenic Purpura

General

Miscellaneous

ICU Admission for Haematology Patients

Wise. Guidelines on the management and admission to intensive care of critically ill adult patients with haematological malignancy in the UK. British Journal of Haematology 2015;epublished August 19th

Last updated November 20th, 2023