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Diagnostics: Blood Transfusion Reactions

Taming the SRU

In the era of modern medicine, blood transfusions are commonplace, especially in the emergency department. Transfusion reactions are a spectrum of adverse events that can occur with the transfusion of whole blood or any of its components. One of the major risk factors is receiving a blood transfusion in the past.

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Imported Malaria

Pediatric EM Morsels

2016 Apr; 32(4): 227–231. Food and Drug Administration Approval of Artesunate for Severe Malaria: Enough to Achieve Best Practice? Worldwide, children <5 years old account for 76% of deaths related to malaria, but these are predominantly in Sub-Saharan Africa (WHO 2022) P. vivax , P. malariae , and the less common P.

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