Tag: cold stored platelets
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Cold-Stored Platelets and Room Temperature Platelets
With the introduction of cold-stored platelets (CSP) into practice, transfusion services have encountered challenges in interpreting FDA guidance. The FDA indicates that CSP may be used to treat active bleeding when conventional platelets—room temperature platelets (RTP)—are unavailable or impractical to use.1 In addition, the FDA requires transfusion services to develop standard operating procedures (SOPs) that…
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Cold-Stored Platelets
Cold-stored platelets (CSP) are a recent hot topic. Prior to the 1960s, refrigerated whole blood contained red cells, plasma, white cells and (cold-stored) platelets transfused as one product to bleeding patients. With broad advancement in medical treatments and manufacturing technology, transfusion therapy became component-based whereby a single donation could yield specific blood products for multiple…